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Hard work! Aligning organisational values and behaviour

Hard work! Aligning organisational values and behaviour

Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business The issue of how well an organisation's values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it

Tolerance: freedom of speech, thought, association and discussion

It has been very interesting (during the 2010 Australian federal election campaign) to watch people advocating freedom of speech on one hand and then getting upset when people with differing views speak out. The intolerance of opposing points of view has really resonated with me. It makes me a bit

Some thoughts on women, management & work #wmwc

Some thoughts on women, management & work #wmwc

I'm lucky enough to be attending the Women, Management and Work Conference in Sydney today. There is a great turnout, with many familiar names and faces from around Australia. So far there has been an impressive line-up of speakers. Yet these impressive speakers each talked about the

Ethics, incompetence, and conspiracy

The common thread between these items is the importance of communication. And it is the communication by leaders and managers within organisations that signifies to people what standards of thinking and behaviour are acceptable. This communication takes the form of spoken words, behaviours, gestures and also of absence, silence and

Knowledge, convenience and findability (thanks @KerrieAnne)

This amusing cat picture was suggested by my buddy @KerrieAnne as a Caturday candidate - it's from a post by Nick Milton titled You wont use it if you can't find it - findability in KM. This struck me as: (a) one very cute cat; (b) one very

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Libraries for the future

I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since it was there that I was exposed to dangerous ideas from philosophers, historians and fiction authors. The local, school and

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