By Parham Antonio Vasaiely We have reached a pivotal moment in business life, where both the way we operate and the products we develop are going through a huge transformation. In fact, we will see more change in the next five years than we have experienced in the last 50 years. Some of the…
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By Rasmus Hougaard During the summer of 2015, Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s CEO, announced that the global professional services company would reimagine its performance management system. The company found that after decades of serving its purpose, the system had become massively demotivating. Accenture’s global workforce had changed. Their people – and your people – are…
Overcoming difficulties when creating win-win situations By Armin Forstner What is a negotiation? When you look up the word negotiationin the dictionary it says, ‘discussion aimed at reaching an agreement’. So, from the outset, a negotiation should deliver a win-win situation, otherwise we wouldn’t agree to the deal. Right? Guess it is easier said…
By Declan Noone It is becoming increasingly obvious that leaders can no longer adhere to the old model of individual, stand-alone masters of all they survey. The complexity of the challenges leaders face, as well as organisational structures and systems, necessitate a new approach to leading new product developments or change: co-creation. In…
By Declan Noone Modern organisations are complex entities, a series of organisational systems designed to support the execution of a strategy. They enable organisations to make sense of both external and internal influences and factors that are impacting a business. These interact in such a way that it is increasingly challenging to appreciate the consequences…
by Dr Joel and Michelle Levey As two of the first people in the world to offer Mindful Leadership and to develop Mindful Organisations, beginning in the 1970s, we have been privileged to witness the emergence of the modern mindfulness movement revolution in its many creative expressions and styles around the globe. Over the…
We speak with Professor Barbara Fredriksson, the world-renowned specialist in emotions research and one of the leading scientists in positive psychology, who tells us more about her theories and how leaders can apply positivity. Interview by Armin Forstner Professor Fredrickson, you are the pioneer in understanding the effects of positive emotions and how to create…
by Juliet Adams and Dr Tamara Russell With all the hype about mindfulness it’s hard to keep up with the reality. Is mindfulness at work turning into ‘soma’, the drug that kept everyone happy in Huxley’s Brave New World?Is 2018 the year that the ‘mindfulness boom’ goes bust?or are we at the stage of fine-tuning…
by Cristian Halaby Introduction In life and in business, prejudice is something that troubles decision-making and conditions the mind-set of individuals and communities. Creeds and collective thought processes solidify without knowing boundaries to the human mind-set, and therefore place a limit on the capacity of people and organisations to think ‘out of the box’and to…
By Armin Forstner I recently taught a Mental Model class to a group of Master trainers from UNICEF partners in Lebanon as part of the Serrano 99 Positive Leadership Module we are integrating into the UN Life Skills Curriculum that is being taught to Youth in the region. It always gives me great joy when…
