A meme is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. The British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word ‘meme’ in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept...
The conversation at the Leading an Entrepreneurial Culture conference, last Friday in Sydney, brought together leaders of large businesses like Westpac Group, responsible for tapping into the creativity and initiative of thousands of corporate employees, as well as academic and not-for-profit organisations, and innovative mid-size...
‘Own’ is a very old word that speaks to a very old human desire: to be independent, to be conscious, to make a mark. It lives at the top of Maslov’s pyramid, as part of self-actualisation. It’s Zen and the Art of Whatever-You’re-Doing. How do...
We’ve all seen the global changes in the employer-employee relationship, with employees constantly on the search for new working opportunities and employers expecting staff to work longer and harder than ever before with diminishing job security. To me this raises the question of trust, if...
If I was an employee and the leaders of the organisation, the HR team or an external agency announced a 'culture change program', I'd feel a bit like they were trying to change me as a person. Whereas what they're actually trying to do is...
I’ve just been running some work sessions with a client’s senior leadership team and line managers, in the midst of an important change for their business. And on the way to the sessions, I found myself thinking about vectors. Watching the flight path map, on the...