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when leaders fail to lead

coachwithheart wrote 2 days ago: “I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is fr … more →

Tags: Encouragement, leadership, positive thinking, Problem-solving, Bullying, Ed Hess, Effective leadership, Great success!, High Performance Organizations

Analyst Resource: Malwr Sandbox

Chimera Security wrote 2 days ago: Malwr is a cloud instance of the ever useful Cuckoo Sandbox. Cuckoo is available for download if you … more →

Tags: Analyst Resources, Cuckoo, apt, malware analysis, Virus Report, trojan, C/C++

How To Quit3 comments

InspGuilfoyle wrote 1 week ago: Okay, so you’ve seen the light and realised that numerical targets are bad for you and those a … more →

Tags: Systems Thinking, binary comparisons, Management, Performance-Management, Systems thinking, targets

Collaborative Leadership

trevorblee wrote 1 week ago: Good Faith Collaboration (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Viewing the organization as a complex system of i … more →

Tags: Collaborative Leadership, Innovation, leadership, Servant Leadership, Collaboration, Complex System, leader, Organization

ERSC Miss the Elephant in the Room

leonardjamesblog wrote 1 week ago: I originally wrote this post a year ago, my aim was to point out how an authoritative voice in educa … more →

Tags: OfSted, Target Culture, Data Dashboards, Management, GCSE Science, Secondary School

The Whole Foods Language Police: Keystone Cops or Company Thugs?

lvgaldieri wrote 1 week ago: Whole Foods now denies that Lupe Gonzales and Bryan Baldizan were suspended for speaking Spanish on … more →

Tags: Business and Society, Language #2, language, Power, Boycott, benevolent corporate paternalism, Innovation, Collaboration, respect

Minions of Ofsted Part 2: Learning Walks3 comments

leonardjamesblog wrote 3 weeks ago: In an earlier post I argued that managers who rely on a ‘progress week’ of Ofsted style lesson obser … more →

Tags: OfSted, Target Culture, Management, Inspection, School, Secondary School

Minions of Ofsted Part 3: The Consultants1 comment

leonardjamesblog wrote 3 weeks ago: In two earlier posts (see 1 & 2) I argued that school managers who rely on a ‘progress week’ of … more →

Tags: Consultants, Inspection, Management, OfSted, School, Secondary School

Minions of Ofsted Part 1: High Stakes Lesson Observations4 comments

leonardjamesblog wrote 3 weeks ago: If you work in a school with ineffective leadership you will probably dread the semi-regular inconve … more →

Tags: OfSted, Target Culture, Management, Inspection, School, Secondary School

Ant Death Circle1 comment

InspGuilfoyle wrote 4 weeks ago: On the train to work this morning, a friend told me about a fascinating phenomenon known as the  … more →

Tags: Systems Thinking, Management, Performance, Performance-Management, short blog, Systems thinking

Value for money is the breakfast of champions!

ThinkPurpose wrote 1 month ago: Value for money. That’s what. The public sector and Council’s in particular are obsessed … more →

Tags: All wrong, Public sector, Questions, value for money

Creativity or Command?1 comment

lvgaldieri wrote 1 month ago: John Hagel and John Seely-Brown have a new piece on CNN Money called “Welcome to the Hardware Revolu … more →

Tags: Leadership, Ask Is A Verb, The Power of Asking, Power, Innovation, Hierarchy, Collaboration, non-coercive power, Sharing

The Marx Matrix in your office2 comments

ThinkPurpose wrote 1 month ago: Red silly! That’s why you’re here. Pursuing the truth that lies behind the assumed surfa … more →

Tags: Systems thinking, human brains are weird, Psychology, Learning, The Matrix, Marx

New business: elevator pitches and Post-it Note tests

neilcowan wrote 1 month ago: A good friend shouted at me yesterday. Rebuking me for my having described something as being so obv … more →

Tags: new business, agency, einstein, Elevator Pitch, facebook, Fresh and Easy, groupthink, infographic, Narrative

Wake up! It's Quarter 4 reporting!

ThinkPurpose wrote 1 month ago: The same thing is happening again, so the same blog post is here again. Why bother writing anything … more →

Tags: All wrong, leadership, Plans, Performance Reports

The Dinosaur of Industry - Command and Control

Wade Giles wrote 2 months ago: The sort of blind obedience required in traditional command and control hierarchies no longer protec … more →

Tags: technology management, leadership, Culture, Corporate, Empowerment, innovation management

Finding the Source6 comments

InspGuilfoyle wrote 2 months ago: As I go about my formal and informal research into the effects of target-driven performance manageme … more →

Tags: Systems Thinking, Assumptions, binary comparisons, Blame, Decision Making, Management, Measures, Organisational culture, Performance-Management

13 reasons why1 comment

ThinkPurpose wrote 2 months ago: Here are 13 reasons why you should buy the latest IT solution you will grow a thick mane of glossy l … more →

Tags: plausible but untrue, very short posts, Public sector, IT

Zen and the art of the Policy Officer

ThinkPurpose wrote 2 months ago: You don’t have to spend decades in a Buddhist monastery staring at a wall to get enlightenment … more →

Tags: very short posts, Public sector, Zen


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