Creative Thinking Advisor at Independant

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3 years 3 months ago
By the way - few words to the team. There is something good about being french (in fact, there is many things good, wine included) it's holidays and vacations ! Edna, Fiona, Claudia, Stephanie and Muk... More
3 years 3 months ago
Many thanks Stephanie for this post. If i understand what you mean, everyone shall have a sense of purpose that connects to the company mission ? That is quite similar to the conditions of engagement ... More
3 years 3 months ago
Great subject to debate. Agree that KPI have been over used and people shall never have to define what they do re KPI. Now my question is the following. You create a team, and you define it's purpose.... More
3 years 3 months ago
I really like the idea that the team is the basic entity and that forget about annual review, do regular achievement base review cycles. I think, true, if we mix, we start to have the foundations of a... More
3 years 4 months ago
Andy, I really like this "The role of management is to remove obstacle". To create the conditions by which people can express their talent by delivering contributions to their team purpose. More
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Ulrich, the one dollar million question ! Let me start with a personal opinion : I sometimes wonder why is management topics in HR's hand. Management is what managers do, and I wonder why an organ... More
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Thanks John ! Good point about the value add to the purpose. You could also consider that rather than you can review one value by how he or she has contributed to implement a purpose. At the end, wha... More
3 years 4 months ago
Fiona, i totally agree that individual targets or objectives divide people focus and don't create conditions of cooperations. Everybody must participate to the company mission statement. Now teams can... More
3 years 4 months ago
Fiona, many thanks for this comment As I believe adaptable companies are client led - they shall adapt to client first, I really like your point. The mission part of the purpose statement must refl... More
3 years 4 months ago
There is a vast amoint of books or articles to read to get informed and stay on the edge of what you do. No one can read them all. Plus, external information is a great way to stay up to date with you... More
3 years 4 months ago
Create project walls inside the company in a plce where most of your employees are lickely to go. have project expose the latest prototype of what they are building, and constantly refresh it. Project... More
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Great point, Matt. The purpose statement shall be the output of a co creation process of some or all the team members. And you shall add the options for members to express if they believe in the purpo... More
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Operational organisation of the company is made of teams created to  answer a unique problem and are not permanent. The team is described by its purpose statement (Mission - the problem to solve,... More
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Hendrik, i really like the analogy with a flock of birds. If you look at it from close, it seems all birds are going in any direction. It looks like there is no direction. But if you step back, if you... More
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 Create a culture of local purpose in a company rather than just tasks and goals based activities, and create a purpose based organisation ready for adaptation.  Create a vision and engage a
By Julien Pascual on July 17, 2021
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There is a vast amoint of books or articles to read to get informed and stay on the edge of what you do. No one can read them all. Plus, external information is a great way to stay up to date with your knowledge and remain adaptative. Public libraries are...

By Julien Pascual on June 17, 2022
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Create project walls inside the company in a plce where most of your employees are lickely to go. have project expose the latest prototype of what they are building, and constantly refresh it. Project shall expose the rationals behinf their key design decisions. Any employee can, view and comment, expose...

By Julien Pascual on June 17, 2022
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Operational organisation of the company is made of teams created to  answer a unique problem and are not permanent. The team is described by its purpose statement (Mission - the problem to solve, vision - orientations of solution and values - respected to make the solution acceptable and success criteria)...

By Julien Pascual on June 7, 2022
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To be adaptable companies must sense the outside world do dectect the need to adapt. they must see themseves as a part of a large ecosystem of clients,  suppliers, partners, contractors, government, etc. and must continuoulsy sense what is happening outside and bring it in to feed inside with reasons...

By Julien Pascual on May 28, 2022
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The company has no purpose statement, or it has one turned towards shareholders or something like "beeing N°1". By lack of a correct purpose statement (Mission, Vision and Values that are engaging and crazy, epic enough to define a journey worth beeing followed), employees have no "box", no "why" to...

By Julien Pascual on May 16, 2022