Archive for September, 2009
Learning Decision Making from Alessi
Posted by Sharon 23 September 2009Explaining the decision making skills of a professional or experienced manager to newcomers to the role, is one of the most difficult challenges I face as a learning designing, and the most satisfying when it is done well. Long ago, I learned that people are frustrated when they hear “it depends” but that’s usually what […]
How / can we learn from our creative mistakes?
Posted by Sharon 23 September 2009We all know the supposed benefits of learning from our mistakes. However, movie producer Nora Ephron - producer of chick flicks such as Sleapless in Seattle and When Harry met Sally - questions whether we can learn any lessons from the duds. In an article by Gerald Wright in the SMH, Ephron’s argument is: if, […]
Are your people smart or do they work hard?
Posted by Sharon 17 September 2009Lots of useful ideas in Roger Dooley’s Neuromarketing blog on how to use the workings of our brain to enhance our marketing persuasiveness. Most of the ideas are also translatable into the management context. E.g. a reference to the research of one of my favourite educators - Carol Dweck - on praise, can be translated […]
Why is organisational change so difficult?
Posted by Sharon 3 September 2009I am working on a large scale organisational change initiative and was talking with a colleague about what matters most - strategy or implementation? The issue is that we were asking the wrong question, because they are so interrelated that neither can succeed without the other.
Today I came across a paragraph from John Roberts’ book, […]