The Slight Edge

“The Words we use become the house we live in” a quote by Hafiz. What Words are people using when they are talking about the event(lockdown) and the Covid-19 Virus? Some Examples: When all this is over,we are going back to what we had before. It will be like a miracle,it will all be gone. […]

The core of the Learning Organisation is Personal Mastery. This is the fulcrum of this turning wheel and is the starting and continuing center point that all evolves from and around.All the other key aspects , while important will not have the same impact without collective and individual Personal Mastery. There are many aspects around […]

DR W EDWARDS DEMING-pioneer in the quality management revolution-great impact on management practices-father of TQM (Total Quality Management) wrote: Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers-a prize for the best Halloween […]

The obvious and easy answer given when you ask people “what is organisational culture”? the way we do things around here.There is a lot of truth in this answer but it is only true when you are looking at the surface.Edgar H Schein in The Corporate Culture Survival Guide identifies three levels of culture. The […]

In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive edge is your  organisation’s ability to learn faster than it’s competitors Peter Senge. “By design and by talent” wrote basketball player Bill Russell of his team , the Boston Celtics “we were a team of specialist, and like a team of specialists in any field, […]

Ed Schein in The Corporate Culture Survival Guide identifies three aspects of Corporate Culture: The Visible Artifacts The Audible Espoused Values The Invisible Tacit Assumptions The measurement of the culture in many ways starts with a discussion of whether the artifacts and espoused values in a given area are in synergy. If not,it is because […]

E Schein, in CorporateCulture-Survival Guide identifies realities about what culture is. “Culture is the shared tacit assumptions of a group that it has learned in coping with external tasks and dealing with internal relationships” “Although culture manifests itself in overt behavior,rituals,artifacts,climate,and espoused values,its essence is the shared tacit assumptions.As a responsible leader,you must be aware […]

Core Values Be aware of you values, knowing what you stand for. Values drive behavior. Appreciating others values, different from your own. Congruency, espoused values and values in use. Creating shared awareness. Thinking Systemically See the bigger picture. We often only see one (small) part Seeing the connections and unintended consequences. Structure drives behavior – […]

WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? In 1997 Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith published a revised edition of Learning to Lead. In this book they make 13 distinctions between managers and leaders. And the distinctions are: 1. The manager administer s ; the leader innovates . 2. The manager is a copy; the leader is an original. 3. […]

In his book “The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook” Peter Senge et all identifies the core of this organisation being based on five learning disciplines: ·      Personal Mastery- Learning to expand our personal capacity to create the results we most desire and creating an organisational environment which encourages all its members to develop themselves toward the goal […]