Reimagining the Future
After the "Changing the Narrative" and the positive feedback and comments I received I was asked what a wellbeing economy looked like. So let me honest, I don’t know, yet. But I do know we can design it together as [...]
Making Remote Working Work
It is almost 12 months now since Covid-19 hit us and disrupted every aspect of our lives. We have since broadened our everyday vocabulary to include such terms as “socially distancing”, “lockdown” and “remote working”. This latter term (in the [...]
Why do change programmes fail so often?
According to research by McKinsey two thirds of business transformations fail to adequately meet their expectations. Where the changes are meant to reduce costs, only one in ten companies manage to achieve cost savings after four years. Not much to [...]
Changing the Narrative – there is more to economic policy than GDP growth
The Elephant in the Room Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is equal to the monetary value of all products and services produced in a country. In effect it measures the size of an economy. Guernsey’s GDP is the first key [...]
Work is something we do, not somewhere we go
As we come to the end of 2020 it's worth pausing and reflecting on our experiences. The scale of disruption to our lives would have been imaginable 12 months ago. Let's think about how we use spaces in our lives. [...]
Businesses can take small steps to address climate change now
Here in Guernsey the States of Deliberation have just approved its Climate Change Action Plan. The government will now legislate for a target of net zero emissions (GHG) to the atmosphere by 2050. There will be an interim target of [...]
What are you doing?
Total Disruption As the pandemic continues to grip communities across the world, we can’t fail to realise how fortunate we are in Guernsey. We have escaped the lengthy disruption to society we are seeing in other countries. But what is [...]
Lessons from COVID-19 for daring greatly in our response to threats from Climate Change
The World Economic Forum has set out some thoughts and ideas on how COVID-19 might help us respond to climate change. In recovering from COVID-19 and addressing the challenges posed by climate change WEF believe that we cannot simply focus [...]
Why Cognitive Diversity Makes Perfect Sense for Business
I hate to admit this, but perhaps Dominic Cummings has a point. Teams with diversity in perspective and experience typically develop better solutions to problems than homogeneous teams of high achievers. Our traditional HR recruitment process focuses on identifying [...]
Making Work Better
24th February 2020 9am-mid day at the Digital Greenhouse, St Peter Port What if some of the basic management practices we accept as best practice aren’t actually that helpful in the workplace? For example, we crave feedback in order to [...]