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The Blame Machine (opens the original)
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Think of the best and the worst decision you've ever made. Most of us sorted them by how they turned out, not by how we decided. That's outcome bias, and it doesn't stop at our own heads. It runs through how organisations judge decisions, distribute credit and place blame. In this episode I look at what happens when the people who decide are not the people who answer for it. A company buys a new system. In one version it works and nobody asks how the choice was made. In the other it doesn't, and
Once, Twice, Culture (opens the original)
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A family sits down and agrees that dinner is a phone-free time. Two weeks later, someone breaks the agreement. Tune in to hear what happens and why it matters for your team culture. Every team has norms, whether anyone discussed them or not. They form out of what people do and what nobody stops. This episode is about two practices that I consider foundational for building a good team culture. The first is a workshop you can run with your team to define your norms deliberately. I walk through how
The Culture Myth (opens the original)
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"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Peter Drucker never said or wrote it. It became a popular claim anyway and we often read a good culture into it. Read plainly, it doesn't say anything about which kind of culture beats a strategy. This episode explores what that line actually claims, why the gap between stated and lived values is so common that most people read straight past culture statements. I take a look at what happened after culture became a serious business topic in the 1980s and exp
Purpose and Direction (opens the original)
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This reflection episode turns purpose and direction into two practices you can start this week. The first is about sensegiving and sensemaking. Three questions that build the line of sight between one person's job and who their work actually serves, and what to do with their answers once you have them. The second is direction. Five moves that give people guidance without you standing over them, from agreeing on what good looks like to protecting your team's focus from the noise around it. Both c
What on Earth is Purpose? (opens the original)
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Ask people what meaningful work is and you get very different answers, yet most of us would take a pay cut for work that has more of it. This episode is about that gap, why purpose stays so fuzzy, and why it matters more than ever. I look at two of the most influential management thinkers. Peter Drucker, whose ideas about good management got reduced to a numbers game and William Edwards Deming, who was ignored at home and listened to abroad, and what both reveal about why good management framewo
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