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Mission-Oriented Leadership: How to Organise for Grand Challenges and Avoid the Common Pitfalls

Mission-Oriented Leadership: How to Organise for Grand Challenges and Avoid the Common Pitfalls


What does it take to organize for purpose-driven, mission-focused “grand challenges”? This question arose during our research on participative strategy. In this article, we draw on our experience working with large-scale systems change and complex organisational design to illuminate the challenges of implementing Mission Leadership.

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How to Facilitate Better Meetings and Workshops: The Five-Stage Framework That Actually Works

How to Facilitate Better Meetings and Workshops: The Five-Stage Framework That Actually Works


Conversations that flow well typically move through five key stages. This blog shares some thoughts on these stages for those who regularly facilitate conversations.

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Why HR and OD Leaders Get Sidelined in Strategy and Organisation Design — And How to Change That

Why HR and OD Leaders Get Sidelined in Strategy and Organisation Design — And How to Change That


Beginning in June 2023, we ran a series of sessions to investigate the separation between ‘suits’ (strategy and organisation design) and ‘cardigans’ (organisation development and change). What are the implications of this separation for HR professionals? These leaders all too often get relegated to doing the three Cs: comms, culture and clearing up.

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