by Phil Jones | Updated 17 Sep, 2011 | Culture of performance, How we make & take decisions
Recently I have been interviewing executives who have either created exceptionally high performing cultures, or who have achieved significant cultural change, especially around deeply embedded learnt behaviours. In one discussion the Managing Director was contrasting...
by Phil Jones | Updated 29 Oct, 2018 | Agile & learning organisations, How we make & take decisions
Back in the dot.com boom around 2000 I was Chief Technology Officer of a start-up that changed direction 180 degrees in 6 months. Within the first six months we had speed: we had our solution up and running to demonstrate a net-market for trading materials between...
by Phil Jones | Updated 26 Oct, 2017 | Thought provokers
Being a manager rarely gets the credit it deserves. Flicking through Gary Hamel’s blog on Management 2.0 for Wall Street Journal, I came across this excellent quote “Our capacity to improve the state of the world is ultimately bounded by our capacity to...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Sep, 2011 | 4G Balanced Scorecard, Agile & learning organisations, How we make & take decisions
Using Judgement and Evidence in Modern Balanced Scorecards: the use of subjective and qualitative measures. Audience questions and responses I presented a BetterManagement webinar on this subject, on 14th October, and it received a lot of interest. You can listen...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Oct, 2017 | Culture of performance, KPI & measure design
A recent forum discussion I was involved in centred around how you should engage people with measures and the effect of incentives, on the culture of performance. In my experience there are several aspects that alter the culture of performance, of which incentives (at...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Facilitating Strategy workshops, Strategy Facilitation
Having facilitated strategy workshops for clients for over 25 years, a number of core principles and a common approach has emerged. It has become clear to me that there are three core components for a successful strategy workshop. They are Quality of conversation...