Articles
From time to time, members and associates of the Human insight team write articles - for publication, or because they think it might interest those browsing our website.
Predictability: Increasing probability of high performance; diminishing risk of derailment
In his latest article, Rick Price, CEO of Human Insight, explores the concept of "Predictability" and demonstrates how Human Insight tools and analysis are proven to predict how individuals, teams and organisational units will perform in pursuit of their strategic tasks and where the risks of derailment lie - a major breakthrough for leaders looking to sustain high performance
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Values and How to Kill Them
In a recent presentation, Peter Robertson gave a thought provoking account of leadership's relationship to organisational values. Here we summarise Peter's thoughts on the dangerous stage at the end of the growth curve when values are under most threat.
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The Leadership Dilemma
The CEO of a major company recently outlined the "dilemma" facing leaders in a uniquely graphic way. We discuss his ideas and show how the S-curve can illuminate them.
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What Leaders Do and Other Family Matters
Drawing on our recent thinking about leadership, this article proposes a different model of leadership, drawing on the successful business ecology approach.
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New Approaches to Talent Management
In the UK alone, 85% of large corporates run leadership development programmes and over £1billion is spent annually on management and leadership development. Rick Price, Human Insight's CEO looks at Human Insight's approach to this critical issue.
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Adaptive partnering for survival and growth
'As we face huge economic challenges partnering is a winning formula to ensure survival and deliver growth at the same time' writes our colleague Brad Matthew, lead consultant at Frost and Sullivan. He uses S-curve analysis to show how companies can cope with these strategies and come through the recession with increased market share and competitive gains.
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Fractal Leadership: Emerging Perspectives for Worldly Leaders
Our colleague Tim Harle is talking at the European Business Ethics Network UK Conference and a Leadership Trust symposium of Henry Mintzberg's idea of worldly leaders over the next two months. Using the business ecology idea of leadership consistency to develop his ideas of Fractal leadership
Click here for an abstract of Tim's leadership talk
How effective is your outsourcing? The ACT-cube® helps you find out
We have met with a number of organisations to explore how the ACT-cube® can help them address some of the key issues they're facing in a turbulent economy. Here is an early work-in-progress prior to a major article on their findings which we'll feature in the next Feedforward.
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People and Organisations@work
To read Peter Robertson and Wouter Schoonman's article about the ACT-cube® in the magazine "People and Organisations@work" which is sponsored by the British Psychological Society please click here.
Leadership in Transformation: the quest for consistency
To read Professor Peter Robertson's article "Leadership in Transformation: the quest for consistency" click here
CEO Today: What really matters in Leadership success
To read a new survey of leadership thinking in CEO Today click here
As Nature Intended: the ecology of complex change
To read Annika Ratcliffe's article for the Training Journal's Roundtable event click here