Blog by Nick Bird

One of the most difficult things your organisation can do, is change its mindset if it doesn't know what that is. Its not as if you can easily discover what it is, through its failure to accurately account for some objectively real world. Your mindset determines what that world is for you and your p...

Everyone wants to be part of something they feel inspired by. If you look at the research, people are more motivated when their jobs provide intrinsic value for them, because they empower their growth to become who they really are. Self actualisation, as Maslow would put it, is more important than m...

Have you ever stopped and thought about why things go wrong in your business or organisation. How come when they do go wrong and you find an answer which seems to work for a while it unaccountably starts failing and the problem you thought you had solved comes back to haunt you only now it has grown...

There is a folk myth that we can make things better for ourselves, by finding out what caused the way things are now. Sometimes this seems easy but often, especially in business, it is hard. What makes it hard is that you have so much information, that you aren't really sure where to st...

Is change always more effective when it is carefully planned and implemented, or is it more successful when initiatives from the stakeholders themselves are selected and nurtured. You would certainly assume that emergent change would be easier to implement  when it is crafted by those most affe...