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About me My work interests centre on understanding people and organisations and helping them to work more effectively. I try to inspire people through my writing and to practise what I preach in my work. Books My first book idea was born partly out of frustration. It is about trust in organisations. Or, as many people whom I spoke to at the time said, “don’t you mean the lack of it?”. I was frustrated that such a fundamental issue was not really acknowledged or talked about. I co-authored the book with an ex-colleague, Jeremy Kourdi. Trust Matters – for organisational and personal success. It struck a chord with many people. We got great coverage for it and we even won an award in the 'Management Today' Management Writing Awards 2004. The paperback edition, A Question of Trust was published by Cyan Marshall Cavendish in 2007. The seduction of writing I was hooked. My next book idea followed quickly: a series of books addressing issues that are vitally important but, like trust, usually not talked about in business. Issues like ego, power and politics. The series is called Truths about Business and I wrote the first book in the series: The Stone Age Company. In 2006 I was thrilled to be asked by Triarchy Press to write Management f-Laws with Russ Ackoff. Russ is one of the world’s leading business thinkers and one of the founding fathers of Systems Thinking. Management f-Laws expose the conventions and laws of management – the hierarchies and power struggles, the ineptitudes and time-wasting, the prejudices and careless thinking – as flaws of management: all of which hinder successful strategies for organizational change and development. What else? For the first part of my career I did the corporate thing, working for BT, Cable and Wireless and The Economist Group. Now I'm in the process of co-creating talentsmoothie. This new venture ticks my two most important boxes; doing work that I'm passionate about and working with great people. Change My interest in how people and organisations change has grown over the years through my studies, my work, many personal development courses, people that I have met, reading and my writing. I have a Master of Science degree in organisational change from the University of Surrey. My dissertation was a study of the experience of leaving organisations with which there is great love and connection. It was through that work that I became interested in what makes companies great to work for. I noticed how few companies manage to inspire passion, enthusiasm and loyalty in their workers. The ones that do seemed to do it spectacularly well. Great companies That was in the mid-nineties. At that time there were few companies who stood out as ‘great companies to work for. Since then, companies like Innocent Drinks, Starbucks, South West Airlines and WL Gore all attract attention as ones to aspire to. There are ‘Great Companies to Work for’ league tables in newspapers like The Times, and magazines such as Fortune. Things are changing. My passion is to be part of pioneering that change in any way I can. Great people I think that good change-agents are people who connect generously and enthusiastically with others. They share their knowledge and resources and inspire others. I count myself very lucky to know lots of these types of people. And...the tango I am a connector at heart, too. That theme shows through in all aspects of my life, not just my work. My non-work passion is dancing Argentine tango. It is an improvised dance and, for me, the beauty of it is in the connection with a partner as we invent a new dance each time we hit the dance floor. |
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