A thoughtful re-consideration  of how Communities of Practice can serve us – with some great points about formality and utility of CoP groups. Whether you are a community leader or working within a corporate environment – John Tropea has touched on a whole bunch of ideas that require us to stop and think. http://bit.ly/2EG5C

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Here is a brief video with a story about the connection between what we ‘See’ and  how effective we are inside a team.

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Imagine this – you arrive to work on Monday morning and find that your team has won the right to handle the company’s most important client. As a result the team will be expanded to deal with the extra workload. There is already a huge list of well qualified and high quality applicants for the […]

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How long can the ‘command and control’ methods of the late 20th Century continue to have value within business? It is becoming increasingly obvious that running things with many layered, and expensive, chains of command is failing. Information flows in two main directions within a organization. Top-down and Bottom-Up. The transition from hierarchy to network […]

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‘Organizational Teams are not delivering Over the last ten years organizational teams have become more distributed and very complex. Despite the number of technologies available to assist teams and groups, it is still exceedingly difficult to manage teams. I use the term ‘organizational’ very loosely. By “organizational teams,” I mean teams working within organizations that […]

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OK the social Darwinists have had their day I think. The bloody struggle to the top of the social pile was based on some assumptions about human nature. These assumptions are proving to be only a small part of the story of human progress. In an essay entitled ‘The Nueroeconomics of Trust’ Paul Zak demonstrates […]

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The inventor Buckminster Fuller was fond of holding up his hand and asking people, “What is this?” Invariably, they would respond, “It’s a hand.” He would then point out that the cells that made up that hand were continually dying and regenerating themselves. What seems tangible is continually changing: in fact, a had is completely […]

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Dealing with change  is one of the biggest challenges most business and team face. Google ‘dealing with change’ and you will get almost 9 million results. The concept of the learning organization enabled Peter Senge and his various collaborators articulate a way of looking at change and it’s connection with learning. When we look for […]

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‘Competitive Success Depends on Enablement‘ doesn’t specifically mention Collaborative Intelligence but the concept of spreading ‘enablement’ throughout the team structure certainly could also be a description of how CQ is developed within business. (from the article) ‘Among the conclusions the study reaches are: The more a company empowers its employees to make decisions, the more […]

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