Belper Mills and Industrial Community Building Colourised photo of Belper circa 1912 What if the way your organisation runs today, team structures, daily rhythms, and performance systems were never designed for your world at all? We set out to trace the roots of the modern world of work on the Sooner Safer Happier 1st Industrial Revolution Tour. We visited the sites where it all began: the first factory system, the first production line, the first shift work, the first time h

Why Do We Still Work This Way? What if the way your organisation runs today, team structures, daily rhythms, and performance systems were...

Are your metrics enabling Better Value Sooner Safer Happier? Why do we need to talk about metrics now? Most organisations have various...

Myth : Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations (1776) was the first to write about division of labour. There's just one problem: Adam Smith...

For many organisations, the annual planning season is a familiar ritual - strategy decks get dusted off, budgets are locked in, and...

How to build, enable, and measure learning in an organisation If you, your team or your organisation stopped learning today, how long...

In April, we “officially welcomed” our newest team member, AI. We hadn’t actually advertised a role, but had heard such good things that...

In 2023, I wrote a perspective on the 5 roles and their behaviours for leaders. This was based upon my work in transformation and...

In this post we'll take a deeper dive into three broad themes of Systematic Management, introduced between 1870 to 1900: Specialisation, Centralisation and Data.

AI and its return on investment is dominating Executive and Boardrooms globally. But amid the buzz, it’s easy to lose sight of what...

Many leaders are operating in a budget-constrained environment meaning that they need to deliver efficiently and effectively, and be...

In today’s fast-paced world, governance is often viewed as a barrier to achieving fast flow - a function stuck in bureaucracy and...

This is the 11th blog post in the  Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways...

This is the 10th blog post in the  Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways...

90% of organisations fail to execute on their strategies successfully, according to Harvard Business School 1 . Yet in today’s...

This is the 9th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

This is the 8th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

This is the 7th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of...

An integrated, connected tooling ecosystem is needed to support strategy to execution I'll be honest. I've never been a big fan of tools....

How good are your OKRs? Here is a set of questions to ask yourself to check to see how good your OKRs are. Overall: ☑️ Who is the...