Learning Nugget 26 - Become Limitless
"You are only limited by your deeply held assumptions and your regulated behaviour" – Chris Luxford Through out many of our learning nuggets we have discussed how our biases and assumptions play havoc with our ability to unleash our true potential. Our regulated behaviours do the same. Often we find ourselves thinking we can’t do this, or we can’t do that, or the organisation won’t let us, or can’t even if it wanted to. When you reflect on why, there is, in most cases, no
Learning Nugget 18 - Your Future as a Non-Conformist
Middle Management are the Custodians of the Status Quo. ASPIRE! Group For years we have said that the very top of an organisation desperately wants change. The front line of an organisation also desperately wants change. But the middle managers are being pulled 6 ways to sunday. Thus the status quo is safer then breaking the invisble shackles. Adam Grant is considered one of the most forward thinkers of our time. Just this month, less than 2 weeks ago, Adam published his
Learning Nugget 16 - Overcoming Bias
“If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.” - Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference In Learning Nugget 15 we explored our own bias, the underlying cognitions that drive our decision making, judgement and actions. "We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we thi
Learning Nugget 15 - You're Biased
As brutal as this might sound, you’re biased. Don’t believe me…read on. Look at the diagram below. What’s missing ? Say it out loud. Scroll down…. Keep scrolling....... almost there........ Well do you think you were correct ? You probably said three (3)…..correct ? What’s actually missing is context. If I actually said, on our digital clock, what’s missing, you likely would have said : If I said what’s the fractional representation of 12 over 45 you would have said the /
Learning Nugget 2 - Guide Customers to their three-legged stool
Guiding Customers to Their Three-Legged Stool: Let the Network Do the Work In order for your customers to get the measurably better business outcomes they want, you and your teams will have to help them achieve a holistic mix of: Business Process Improvement or, better yet, Business Process Innovation Enabling Technologies to provide the tools needed to support those new Business Processes Culture Change, meaning having people successfully leverage those new tools and process
