A Scientific Guide on How to Stop Procrastinating

What does real business transformation look and what does it take to be successful? This article looks back over the past 10 years at the most successful transformations to see what lessons can be learnt.

Per Espen Stoknes gives some excellent insights on why we resist making the changes needed address the climate emergency (despite the fact that our future depends on it)

Disruption used to arrive one challenge at a time. You could transform, consolidate, and prepare for what came next. That breathing space no longer exists. Here’s what compounding change actually costs organisations, why the instinctive response tends to make things worse, and what genuine adaptability looks like in practice.

In a world where agility and pace are critical to survival, the long term winners will be those who can sustainably unleash creative thinking right across the business. In this excellent TED interview Reed Hastings shows how different, often radical models have been adopted at Netflix, models that challenge to the very core some of our beliefs about how businesses can be run.

People don’t respond to reality. They respond to their perception of it. For leaders running major technology programmes, that distinction is the difference between transformation that builds momentum and investment that quietly fails to deliver. Here’s what most organisations get wrong, and where the real leverage is.

When a team is functioning well it’s obvious, both to the team itself and to those around it. There’s a clear buzz and things get done, quickly and seemingly with less effort. So how can we create this? Patrick Lencioni uses a story format to highlight some of the behaviours that ban work against successful teams. Like many things in life it seems so obvious, except when it isn’t.