The Danish group Innovisor has identified "6 change blockers" based on analysis of networks/influence/change with organisations in 70+ countries. The 6 blockers are: 1) Leadership cohesion - leadership teams are more siloed than any other kind of team 2) The fragmentation

Toxic cultures exploit generosity. Takers impose extra work on givers, and no good deed goes unpunished. Healthy cultures reward generosity. People protect givers from takers, and cream rises to the top. Helpfulness is not a weakness to target. It's a strength to safeguard.

In 1998, Citibank and The Travelers Insurance Company merged. They hired legendary designer Paula Scher to create a new logo. In their first meeting, on a napkin, Scher drew what became the iconic Citi logo. As Scher got up to leave the room, someone from the Citi team asked,

1/ Depression is the psychic equivalent of fever. Fever is a non-specific response to an enormous range of underlying physiological conditions, from the common cold to ebola. Depression is likewise a *non-specific* response to an enormous range of underlying conditions. It is

In Vienna, 80% of residents rent, and virtually every rental has some form of rent control. As a result residents rent for life and often pay as little as 8% of their income on rent (compared to over 30% for renters in Oz). 60% live in social housing. nytimes.com/2023/05/23/mag…

Very often in healthcare, we make a massive effort to improve our delivery performance by changing our processes and practices. We should probably start much higher up in our knowledge structure by considering our paradigm - our beliefs about how to make change happen. If we do

"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people." ~ Carl Jung #Philosophy #misfit #powerandcontrol

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Meanwhile during a downpour in the Japanese city of Nara.. 😊

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The research is clear. Loneliness is bad for everyone — individuals and companies. It’s on managers to foster a sense of belonging for their teams. s.hbr.org/3RfjsKp

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Solar farm on the mountaintop of Northern China's Shanxi, stretching 80 kilometers and covering more than 10,590 acres

Worth noting

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ

Ding dong, the 5-day office week is dead. People are working nearly 1/3 of days remotely. Flexibility is worth as much to people as an 8% raise. What we value most is skipping the commute. We dislike schlepping more than working. Hybrid is the present as well as the future.

How effective #psychological treatments work: mechanisms of #change in #cognitive behavioural therapy and beyond

Return-to-office mandates might be a mistake

Something @robbsmith predicted last year is AI should tend to flatten the significance of current knowledge goods and reify the power of existing industry, but there might be an asymmetry in how this occurs based on where the economic production falls in the evolutionary stack.