Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s 1970 global smash hit is often considered their signature song. A calming and soothing song for deeply troubled times. By spring 1969 both Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were gone – assassinated. Racial tensions were erupting across the US. The war in Vietnam was still lumbering along like some…
What’s the Buzz? What’s “Psychological Safety”?
One of the most recent phrases making headlines around the online forums is “psychological safety”. It’s also something that has come up many times in various conversations I’ve had with Hive members. It’s worth taking a look at, especially if you’ve been asking yourself: ” How can I be a role model for psychological safety…
5G mobile – so what’s that all about?
The all-IP 4G LTE network has delivered mass smartphone adoption and fundamentally changed the ways that people communicate. There’s a lot more to come from 4G too, ahead of 5G service launches in the late 2019 – 2022 timeframe. So, what more will the fifth-generation of mobile communications offer? Users are likely to enjoy even…
Brexit – Opportunity knocks!
If you (or your client) are a young and dynamic UK based business and worried about the impact of Brexit on Manufacturing operations, Exports to EU or Supply chain operations – we may have a solution. Read on. Want to access a trillion $ economy? “We help young and dynamic UK based Businesses setup part…
5 Key Considerations When Assessing Growth Potential
Growing a company can be exciting and fun. Launching new products, winning more customers and entering new markets is a real buzz for most entrepreneurs. For some lucky (or clever) individuals growth comes easy. They have an awesome product, customers find it, buy it and tell their friends. Boom – exponential growth. However, for most…
What’s the Buzz? Authority to Lead
I thought it might be fun to give a type of “retrospective” about a main theme in many of the conversations I’ve been having with HIVE members lately. (And thanks to David Clark for prompting me to write this!) As an organizational psychologist, I may approach things a little differently than someone coming from IT…
Harnessing the Hidden Talent of Employees
There is common trend prevalent amongst organization across the globe from past couple of years concerning employees leaving away their cushy corporate jobs for seeking a taste of start-up life. Some of the key reasons behind employees such a bold step is: Live up the passion Stressful job Robotic routine life Lack of clarity/growth at…
How to systemically manage for digital leadership?
In this series, we have covered what was systemic management and why any digital leader should take a prime interest in it. In this post, we are taking the time to describe some more, where we would start and how we would deploy systemic management in practice. Change is far from a mathematical formula. Change…
Hyper-Personalization — Next Generation Customer Experience Redefined?
We are living in a world where every other organization on the planet is striving hard to sell their products / services to potential customers by wrapping them under the glossy & glittery packaging of digital transformation. Though, it might make their lives easier to achieve those conventional sales targets at the end of financial…
Systemic management for digital leaders
You will have seen many times this quote from Steve Jobs: “It does not make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” This quote probably resonates, even more today, when most enterprises are facing the complexity of adapting to…
