Exploring Servant Leadership: Learning to Inspire and Inform (Part II)
In Part I we examined the problems with Boss Leadership and some of the undesirable consequences that follow. In this article, we’ll explore an alternative, Servant Leadership. We learn what’s...
View ArticleExploring Servant Leadership: Comparing the old world and the new (Part III)
In this mini-series we’re exploring Servant Leadership and contrasting it with the traditional Boss Leadership alternative. In Part I we examined the problems and consequences of Boss Leadership. In...
View ArticleYou Can’t Engineer Culture Change!
Sometimes people approach everything as an engineering problem. While this can work very well, not everything can be engineered, some things are emergent – they are a property of the system. This...
View ArticleLean Product Development: Sleepwalking to Electric Sheep
The original book behind Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was set in 1992. When it comes to modern change approaches – particularly those that come from IT, like...
View ArticleVideo: Cultivating Culture Change with Tom Sedge
In this video, we take an example-led practical tour of Cultivating Culture Change within organisations using the metaphor of gardening. This draws on my experience to include a range of techniques...
View ArticleI’m speaking at Create Brighton 7: From Boss to Servant – My struggle to...
I’m speaking at Create Brighton #7 Wednesday 13th August on From Boss to Servant: My struggle to reclaim the workplace. I believe in “making work work for people, not making people prisoners of how...
View ArticleI’m speaking tonight at Agile:MK with Dan Rough on The Agile Organisation
I’m speaking tonight at Agile:MK Agile User Group with Dan Rough on The Agile Organisation: Transforming approaches to people, management and change. We’ll be at the Jurys Inn, Midsummer Boulevard in...
View ArticleVideo: TDD for Business Strategies – Developing Business Strategies Test-First
This is the video of my talk from Agile on the Beach 2014 where I spoke on how to apply agile test-first principles to the development of business strategy. Many businesses struggle with the strategy...
View ArticleVideo: From Boss to Servant – My struggle to reclaim the workplace
This is a version of my talk from Create Brighton on 13th August 2014 where I spoke about Servant Leadership. I explain why we need a new form of leadership, what’s wrong with the old one, how Servant...
View ArticleVideo: AgileMK – The Agile Organisation and People
This is a talk and interactive session that I ran with Dan Rough at Agile:MK on 1st September 2014. We speak about The Agile Organisation and its effects – the effects on people, how work is managed...
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