| Integrity - more>> |
| One of the defining features of an authentic business is that they should have integrity between communications and actions. Here Paul explains how you can achieve that. |
| What is the real work of management? - more>> |
| Some of us are striving to better understand ourselves and the world we live in. What we find often doesn’t sit very well with this commercial world: by working within this system, are we sustaining something we don’t much care for? David Brook, a previous contributor, and Alexis Read explore how being authentic relates to the world of management. |
| Finding Work that makes you Happy - more>> |
If you know you hate your job, then you'll know that it's time to leave. But if you have a vague feeling that things are just not as good as they could be, and aren’t quite sure what to do about it … read on!
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| Meeting needs - more>> |
Meeting design is not something, which seems to get a great deal of recognition but it is something Neil Crofts came to understand during his time at Razorfish. "We had so many meeting and had such a lot to achieve in them that designing the meetings using specific activities and break out sessions to achieve particular outcomes and build towards a final objective became crucial. Since then I have learned far more about meeting design and we now offer it as part of the Authentic Guides service. |
| To Tell The Truth - more>> |
As children we are often told not to lie but we are seldom taught how to tell the truth. Not only that but most of the role models we have from teachers, parents, TV and politicians are around dishonesty. |
| Control organisation - more>> |
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and hoping for a different result"
- Rita Mae Brown
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| From managing to leading: making the leap - more>> |
By Paul Gibbons, Future Considerations
Paul takes a detailed look at the dynamics of leadership to understand the difference between management and leadership and why there appears to be so little leadership in evidence in business today.
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| Motivation and meaning - more>> |
One of the big challenges for managers in organisations is the need to get others to do things accurately and on time. How to motivate others to do the tasks they need to do? How to communicate requirements in a way that ensures that they actually happens? |
| The ideas unlimited guide to just doing it - more>> |
What’s the idea?
- Commercial organizations need passion, ingenuity, teamwork, initiative and spark from people at work
- Social and Environmental projects are looking for relationships with and support from commercial organisations
- Individuals are seeking a greater sense of purpose – in their work and in other parts of their life
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| The power of the flow - more>> |
The world of business often seems to think it is above youthful energy and exuberance and that it is better to be serious, significant and much too grown-up to be interested in frivolity. Perhaps, though, there is something to be said for returning to a childlike curiosity– where everything is new and exciting, and more importantly, it is possible. Children have a magical ability to be free thinkers. They don’t have past experiences with which to view future opportunities and they don’t shut down zany ideas because they don’t have the right resources – they create the right resources, they improvise and they innovate. In choosing to be serious and significant, perhaps businesses are overlooking that amazing idea that could lead to dynamic new possibilities.
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