Why do I say it’s good to be common? You aren’t common and you know it. Every one of us is special. I am a member of several tribes. There is my closest group of friends, we are a tribe from high school. My golfing buddies I do a trip with every year. My neighbours
No one doubts your expertise. Staff know when they need to come to you. They know they won’t get their budget approved without engaging with finance, recruit without HR, get the final approval without compliance and on the list goes. The problem is their perception of what you do. Here is a list I would
I have been working with an organisation recently helping them to build a tribe amongst a tribe. It has been a joy watching staff self-organise to fulfil a common goal whilst having some fun along the way. What they are doing, however, isn’t easy. They are trying to influence a much larger tribe as a
I was reading a great post by Paul Broadfoot about early warning systems in large organisations. At first it got me thinking about what great people we are in the risk profession as we help design early warning systems which many of us call Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) while others might simply refer to them
I was listening to a couple of people on the radio this week in the US talking about their support for the Red or the Blue side of politics. It is a concern how some people want their side to win so badly, they simply don’t care what the other side says and will excuse their