Able and How

IN FRONT OF THE GRAND PRIX — The biggest challenge to using social media in the workplace is bringing together the various skills and functions that need to approve it.

I was at a Tuttle meeting yesterday. Not for long. Not long enough. But I me some very interesting people. And I came out [...]

COVENT GARDEN — It’s the season of renewal. You may have sensed that. It’s not just a spring thing, but also the Easter message and a feeling that maybe (just maybe) there is some good economic news on the horizon.

I had breakfast with Ezri this morning and we had a good old philosophical discussion. And he suggested, [...]

S W LONDON — I believe that many modern workplaces defy the Geneva Convention. When the world economy is in tough times… like now… it only gets worse.

I am not suggesting physical abuse. Let’s be clear about that. Any physical abuse is and should be readily picked up by police. But I am thinking about some [...]

HOME — The jobs of CEO and/or senior mandarin in a government department is never easy. It’s lonely and short on feedback. And then there’s the problem of getting people to do the things that you know the organisation needs to do.

It can all be a bit stressful.

So here are a few of the things that [...]

LONDON — We teach change management. We teach whole businesses, programmes, leaders and communicators. And usually people can understand it quite quickly. But that starts with realising what they didn’t know… or hadn’t planned for.

In a February 2007 Harvard Business Review article John Kotter wrote:

In every successful transformation effort [...]

KNIGHTSBRIDGE — Thanks to everyone who came to our first Able Round Table last night. It was a good turn-out and a very interesting discussion. The panellists from EDF, Virgin Media and Innocent were, frankly, brilliant.

We did lots of scribbling down of sound-bites and ideas to take [...]

LONDON — I asked a colleague for an internal password and the reply came back as “ilovemyjob”. Which I think is brilliant.

Most of us do love our jobs. We get up every day and we go in to do things that we like to do. That’s the pleasure of living in the 2000s. We’re not mining [...]

LONDON — We have a combination of skills that should make this course unique:

1) Academic training and thought-leadership in change management

2) Experience running some of the communication and engagement streams in some of the world’s biggest change programmes

3) Training skills that ensure an interesting and interactive learning experience. (We’ve training thousands of top execs…. With great results.)

So [...]

CHARLESTON, S.C. — There are many things that surprise you when you return to the States after a long time away: People are nice. There are lots of churches. The space. The advertising, everywhere.

But most of all the cost of things.

I filled my rental car from almost empty, and it cost me $17. That’s [...]

WINDSOR — Let’s start with 13th century Florence. Because we can… Where would art be without the Medicis? These bankers were great patrons of the arts. They produced three Popes (although let’s not talk about banking and religion.) There are many great works that simply would not exist without the patronage of great bankers.

Lawyers largely [...]