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In the Stargate episode "The Torment of Tantalus", four ancient races bring the elements we know as the Periodic Table into a universal...

Managing others is hard enough, but what about you? Do you find it difficult to be internally effective? You're not alone. A quarter of...

"That's a strange title," you may reasonably think to yourself. After all, why would you want to manage misery in the first place? You're...

Swearing by Lean is like cleaving to religion - belief can make it work, but the evidence is hypothetical. At the turn of the millennium...

Are we in a state of emotional turmoil? Do we suffer the ravages of mental stress and all that goes with it on a regular basis? Do we...

This is the time of year when traditionally we think of new resolutions. Most of those slip through the net of spacetime but one or two...

When it comes to people, we're a strange lot... working in habitual cycles (that we sometimes have to break) and struggling to keep our...

One of the key factors to come from Cultural Analysis is that most of us humans are unaware of how to manage ourselves. We might hide our...

Questing for cultural change can be like looking for an angel in the boardroom - it's in there somewhere, but the reality barriers seem...

How much do we long for the right things to be written into our world line? In the context of love as coined by Taylor Swift, we're...

They could be - think of the vibrance waiting to happen at the introduction of new strategies, better ways of promoting the workplace,...

Elusive, is workplace engagement. More 'primitive' (thus humanly advanced) cultures tend to be trained towards engagement for the purpose...

You may well ask. Most of the people I speak to are mystified about CSR, so you're in good company. What mystifies me - or did, until I...

Yes, they are connected. At this point in time, it's become apparent to me that industrial companies are thinking about how to address...

"Have a lovely day today. While you're here, I'm just going to introduce you to Positive Productivity." "What's that? How can...

That might seem like an odd strapline. You'd be surprised at what I found from the survey just completed, though, on Operational Impacts...

Without engineering, nothing would be made, upgrades couldn't run, and manufacturing wouldn't exist. So why does the industry face so...

Where's the connection? Isn't C.I. a process-driven concept? If you want success and sustainability in managing improvement on a...

The word "deserve" means what, exactly? To anticipate goodness coming your way? To feel as though you have earned something? To expect a...

“In an organization with a high level of cultural capital, misconduct risk is low, and its organizational structures, processes, formal...