• Sustaining high performance beyond public-sector pilot projects
  McKinsey Quarterly 26 Sep 18
  Public institutions can turn remarkable short-term efforts into meaningful long-term results.
• Cybersecurity and digital resilience: Seven practices for companies in Indonesia
  McKinsey Quarterly 26 Sep 18
  
• Behind the mining productivity upswing: Technology-enabled transformation
  McKinsey Quarterly 26 Sep 18
  Despite great promise in digital advancements, many companies are struggling to embrace tech-enabled transformation. Mining players need to rev three engines to tap into the true potential.
• Five fifty: The data talent link
  McKinsey Quarterly 26 Sep 18
  A compelling mash-up of analytics, data, and talent management is showing companies where HR misses the mark. 
• What leaders talk about when they talk about transformation.
  Complexity and Management Centre 21 Sep 18
  What exactly is transformational change, and what kind of leadership qualities are required if one finds oneself in charge of a project which claims to be transformational? What might we learn about leadership from studying a sector, the Higher Educations sector in the UK, where there are…
• Sales And Service Tech: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?
  Kate Leggett: Forrester 17 Sep 18
  Automation and AI are changing the nature of work. Every company job — including every front-office job — will be impacted. Always-available commerce and intelligent guided-selling solutions erode field sales teams. Automated self-service obsoletes generalists and Tier 1 customer service agents…
• Defining Success For Asian Businesses: Maximizing People Potential
  John Kotter – Change Leadership: Forbes 13 Sep 18
  Getty Royalty Free In today’s business world, change is a constant. This is even truer in Asia where economic, demographic, cultural and technology changes are challenging businesses to adapt their strategies, operating models, hiring policies and organizational cultures. Three major external…
• Do You Trust Your Team?
  John Kotter – Change Leadership: Forbes 9 Sep 18
  Getty …and does your team trust you? In a previous post, I shared that creating great teams is about engaging team members’ hearts and heads. One characteristic of leaders who do this particularly well is the ability to build and maintain trusting relationships. There are hard economic benefits…
• How an algorithm can improve the design of your organization
  Nicolay Worren: Organization (re)Design 27 Aug 18
  Can an algorithm improve the design of your organization? I believe the answer is yes. In fact, together with two colleagues (Kim Soldal and Tore Christiansen), I am developing a software tool for this purpose. It is called Re:config . The goal is not to automate the entire organization design…
• Can You Spot Your Influencers?
  John Kotter – Change Leadership: Forbes 22 Aug 18
  Shutterstock The uptake of any change effort largely follows Roger’s law of product diffusion . This suggests that the large majority of your change population will look to take its cues from the highly influential early adopters. Focusing on positively engaging this group of early adopters…
• Perspectives on being critical
  Dr Robert Warwick: Metis Exploration 30 Jul 18
  A couple of weeks ago I met with a PhD student for a cup of tea before the summer break. We got onto the subject of ‘being critical’, it was a conversation that made me see the word quite differently. I often say to students ‘you need to be more critical’ the phrase just trips off my tongue…

Forget personality – a thinkpiece on restructuring teams…

A scribbled thinkpiece from Q5’s Andy Cottrill on how to think about restructuring teams and businesses.