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'Brick Wall' or 'Camp Fire' Type Organisation?
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 04/09/2007 17:41
Camp fires foster connection and co-operation. Brick walls don't
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Information vs Wisdom
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 09/08/2007 21:06
Leadership development stubbornly remains more 'dark art' than business science.
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Limits Of Specialisation
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 09/08/2007 08:23
Specialisation comes at a cost.
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Only Two Relationships
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 08/08/2007 07:24
One is easier than the other, though not the one we expect.
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The Law Of 'Mother/Child'
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 07/08/2007 20:23
Dealing with the cause, rather than only the evidence, of problems with people.
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Icebergs & Organisations
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 07/08/2007 20:10
We hide more than we show.
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Sustainable People = Sustainable Planet
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 06/08/2007 12:16
A sustainable earth depends ultimately on creating sustainable people.
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Failure To Relate Creates Organisational Failure
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 06/08/2007 11:40
Most failures in organisations are failures of relationships.
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Who Or What Is Really In Charge?
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 05/08/2007 23:00
Are we in charge of ourselves?
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Personal Patterns Effect Professional Performance
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 26/07/2007 09:49
The more we learn about how we work the better we can become at what we do.
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Timing Creates Conflict
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 26/07/2007 09:28
Conflicts of timing are at the bottom of many conflicts that can seem to be about other things.
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'Gunslingers, Marshalls and Homesteaders'
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 24/07/2007 08:20
Knowing what you are makes for a more satisfying life.
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Conflict And The Psychology Of War
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 14:09
Why conflict becomes entrenched.
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Ignorance Inhibits Development
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 13:17
Greater knoweldge about the way we work creates better control over how well we can work.
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Fatigue Softly Steals Best Judgement
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 13:12
Precisley when we need good judgement the most, tiredness robs us of it.
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'Doing Time' At Work.
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 13:09
Doing too much of what you don't enjoy is what makes work hard.
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Authenticity - The Final Frontier
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 12:50
Authenticity is the final frontier for organisational and individual development.
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Conflict Philosophy In Organisations.
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 12:24
Managing conflict, through an agreed way of doing so, reduces risk.
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People and Infinite Complexity
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 12:22
People are infinitley diverse, complex and changing.
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The 'Why of Work'
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 23/07/2007 12:19
Paying the bills is only part of what we can get out of work.
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Organisational Problems are Usually Relationship Failures
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 10/07/2007 14:31
Organisational failures as most usually failures in one or more human relationships. Blame is often placed anywhere but there.
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Camp Fires or Brick Walls?
notes By Jeremy Sweeney on 10/07/2007 14:26
Experience of an organisation can be intuitiuvely understood in terms of whether it fosters a feeling of 'camp fires' or brick wall's. One fosters connection and warmth, and the other rigidity and authoritian inflexibility. Most people like campfires, few like brick walls.
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Honesty is Risky but Rewarding
General Log By host on 04/07/2007 06:40
We are culturally risk and conflict averse. Yet best practice in professional development work required having the courage to be honest in communicating what clients may well not like, or want, to hear.
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