Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Everything changes - including this blog.

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Everything is in flux, or flow and so is this blog. I am moving it to my website at www.centrei.org. See you over there. Dave
Thursday, September 06, 2012

Hermetic Learning and what we didn't let the Romans do for us

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What we didn't let the Romans do for us. A few weeks ago I took my ten year old son Joe to Vindolanda, the Roman fort situated...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Internal Tension: Compliance v Entrepreneurialism

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I was talking to a CEO the other day who wanted his people, particularly his senior managers to 'stand on their own two feet' as ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

The Psychology of Ambiguity 3: Availability cascades

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One of the issues most people face when they have to deal with an ambiguous situation is separating out new world facts and beliefs from ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Motivate or Manipulate?

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I was running a workshop for managers last week and as often happens in leadership and management courses, a discussion ensued about how ...
Friday, April 06, 2012

The Psychology of Ambiguity 2: Ambiguity Bias

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You have a choice. You are at work and you have to make a business decision between 3 options each of which will take the same effort: Busi...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

The psychology of Ambiguity 1: Cognitive Dissonance

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How do you react when faced with something that you don't understand and appears to conflict with what you already believe or understand...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Are they making 'efficiencies' in your organisation?

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'Do more with less'.  'Rationalisation'.  'Making efficiencies'.  'Being more effective'.  'Streamlined...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The principle of reciprocity between managers

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One of the principles I often bang on about in organisations or situations containing significant levels of ambiguity or uncertainty ( see t...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The 6 + 2 Psychological Factors of a Good Leader

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There are a number of closely correlating studies examining the psychological factors which contribute to a successful leader. I have just c...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

What is the difference between uncertainty and ambiguity?

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I am often asked this question, so in the interests clarity about ambiguity and uncertainty... Something is ambiguous if it can be interpr...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

On failing, learning and ambiguity

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Different people I come across or coach have very different relationships with the concepts of failing, learning and ambiguity. It appears t...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Ambiguity Advantage - Audio from Cranfield School of Management

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Cranfield have published an audio about The Ambiguity Advantage: What great leaders are great at and leaders dealing with ambiguity. Listen...
Friday, January 28, 2011

There is feeback and then there is FEEDBACK

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So leading on from the previous blog. What I was really interested in was the quality of the feedback given to an individual through the fo...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Split test of 360 degree feedback. Not all feedback is equal.

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I had the opportunity to test three versions of 360 degree feedback, using four different conditions in the last couple of weeks with some i...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Problem Solving and Mood

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A couple of clients last week poked me and said. You must be busy because we haven't seen much from your blog recently. I have been work...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Only one route?

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Decisions and results Everything we do is a decision, whether it is a conscious decison or not it is still a decision. Doing nothing or doi...
Monday, November 08, 2010

A quote

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"Ambiguity, risk and uncertainty scream out for their bedfellows; innovation, experimentation and play." David Wilkinson Author of...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Strategic Planning: How far out? Are you serious???

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I have been doing some work with a couple of clients around building a strategic plan. Usually what they want is a business / corporate / o...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Emotional Resilience: with emotion

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One of the areas I have been focussing on both in terms of work and research (there is another book on the way) is emotional resilience (we ...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Facipulation...

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Whilst coaching a client in the city this week, he made a comment that made me think. He was trying to solve an ambiguous dilemma, so I did ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

The 10 most predominant attributes of Mode II people

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In terms of population distribution by far the most frequent group of people are mode two or co-operative people. Approximately 55% of the p...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Mode one as followers and leaders - relationships

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As followership and leadership rely on relationships in this blog I will look at mode one relationships from both a leadership and a followe...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Mode one people - attributes

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The first group of people I will look at as part of this series on followership and leadership are what is known as mode one or technical pe...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

A note about systems of logic or Modes

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I have been asked for a little more info about the concept of a mode. Whilst
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research 
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Friday, December 12, 2008

I'm back with some modes

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Firstly sorry about the pause in the blog. I have been setting up a new venture which has taken up more time than I expected, and we have b...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Ira Chaleff's follower typology - his response

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I wouldn't normally do this, however Ira has responded to the last blog about his work. His response is very useful and adds to the shor...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Ira Chaleff's follower typology

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The next followership model, another typology, comes from Ira Chaleff who I believe is part of the Followership Exchange a rather useful wi...
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