🔊 Listen to this article 🔊 We had a family friend once who had a cracked pipe in their heating system. When he first noticed it, he simply put a bucket underneath the pipe to capture the small drips. …

I get to work around the world with all sorts of different companies and cultures — from FMCG, finance and fashion to start-ups, sport and software development. Very different businesses, very different ways of doing things. …

The recent Baroness Casey Review into the toxic culture at the Metropolitan Police in the UK brought to light many horrific things that people hope to never witness in their working lives. Bullying, harassment, misogyny and institutional racism were all cited in the 363-page review. I read many of these…

🔊 You can also listen to this article The biggest barrier to building and maintaining a vibrant culture, and achieving the consistent performance that it brings, is not meetings, emails, unclear priorities, a lack of people or technology. It’s the choices people make about how they spend their time. Time…

Culture is often a set of unwritten rules between managers and employees. What this means in practice is that when employees are engaged and feel able to bring their best selves to work, the culture is good. People are happy, feel empowered to do their jobs, recognise that they’re part…

You can also listen to this article 🔊 I spent last week working with a client in Europe that is committed to doing the right things when it comes to building and maintaining a vibrant global culture. …

You can also listen to this article 🔊🔊🔊 Whenever I start working with new clients, I take the time to understand the issues that they are facing in their culture so that we can resolve them once and for all. …

‘Who’s responsible for toxic culture?’ It’s one of the questions I get asked the most in my line of work and frustratingly for most, there’s no one simple answer because on some level every single person involved in that culture is responsible. Let me explain. Culture in its simplest form…

Opposite where I live there is a running track and every other day I go for a run. The running track is ideal; it’s flat, has a gentle rise but nothing more taxing than that. The sun rises over it early morning and sets on it early evening. It circulates…