Do we need a Department of Government Efficiency? Probably not. But we do need a complete bottom up reinvention of many of our institutions. Latest post.

Corporate amnesia or ‘institutional forgetting’ is a phenomenon where organisations lose valuable knowledge, experience, and insights over time. Read more 👉

Sometimes you just need a spark of inspiration to finish something. Read more 👉

Turning the organisation upside down one place at a time. The next ask us anything place-based webinar is on Friday 14th Feb at 12pm. Free booking here

Great quote from @JohnWSeddon at this mornings session with @disruptiveIan: Benchmarking is copying without knowledge. Everything you need to know to improve your system is in your own system. You just need to go looking for it

Labeling can erode trust, hinder relationships, and reinforce systemic inequities by masking the root causes of disparities. Read more 👉

Culture as a Driver of Success (or Failure) Culture is represented by the stories we tell, and stories reside in the imagination. The same story is imagined differently by different people. Workplace culture is found in the stories we tell our friends and family about our experiences of work, the gossip and the political intrigue, as well as the fun and our meaningful connections to work.

Humanity’s ongoing climate change mitigation offers reasons for optimism, not apocalysm, underscoring that it’s not too late to take action Read more 👉

“The challenge then, is to find in just which tasks remote work improves productivity and value-add, and in which ones it doesn't.” Read more 👉

I don’t mind LinkedIn, but I just can’t ever love it. Read more 👉

RT @AVFCStatto: This is why you never judge a transfer window until it is closed. Take my President of football operations name out of yo…

The ‘long memory of communities' is in much better shape than the ‘short memory of institutions'. Read more 👉

“What gets measured gets managed—even when it's pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so” Read more 👉

When Do We Stop Finding New Music? Every cohort believes that music was "better back in my day." Age 33 is the tipping point for sonic stagnation Fascinating

Two weeks today Friday 14th February it's time for our next @BromfordLab webinar where we'll be introducing the second of our place prototypes - South Lichfield. The session will give an overview of a completely different management system that encompasses housing, older persons services, maintenance and community engagement 12:00pm - 12:45pm including Q+A. Book here

Instead of imposing pre-determined agendas, we need to create space for open dialogue, allowing communities to lead the conversation and share their perspectives authentically. Read more 👉

RT @OzzyOsbourne: The Villa won 4-2 today. Fucking Brilliant!! Tears are running down my face with joy. #UpTheVilla!

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The fetish for compliance over results create a circus where the main act is anything but actual productivity. Read more 👉

Companies and government agencies typically adopt innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops) that result in innovation theatre. Read more 👉

At the end of August 2024 we took fifteen colleagues and released them from their organisational silos. A simple concept: create an agile cross-functional team that served the place bottom up. The experiment: would colleagues feel they had more autonomy and could better tailor services to local need?