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The post I made a couple of days ago on the differences between efficiency and productivity has been turned into a superb sketchnote & accompanying blog by @tnvora: https://t.co/rNW12tWeue. For those who couldn't open the original article by Avi Siegal, here's another link:

Exciting new Mental Health nursing posts! Rotational Crisis/Home Treatment Team opportunities, allowing you to work within both our Adults (18-25s) and CAMHS Teams (<18 years). Forward Thinking Birmingham, part of @BWC_NHS @daljitathwal @tammydav1 https://t.co/zHdbcOLlSU

Stanford Social Innovation Review @SSIReview has just produced a new reading list on transformative leadership. There are links to multiple excellent, thought provoking articles, such as in the first link "Recognizing Leadership in All Its Forms". Inspiring reading about

Too often when we talk about "leaders", we focus on people who have "manager" or "director" in their job titles. We can end up undervaluing the role of informal leaders - team members who influence outcomes by the tone they set, their conduct & how they interact with others in

"Corporate antibodies" are people or processes within an organisation that resist new ideas & innovations, often with a good intention to protect it from risk. They're called “antibodies” as they seek to neutralise changes they perceive as threats to the status quo and make it

In red - people who agree with Nigel Farage. In green - people who disagree with Nigel Farage. This is who we really are…

Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in

Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who stepped in front of the King’s horse at the Derby, 1913 #WomensArt

Cécile Nobrega (1919 – 2013), Guyanese-born UK poet, playwright, composer, activist who led a 15-year campaign to establish the 1st public statue of a Black woman to be on permanent display in England - 'Bronze Woman', Stockwell, London #WomensArt

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of seven, she later became the first published African-American female poet #WomensArt

´Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck´ by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Big Mama Thornton (1926-1984), influential US rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter, who recorded the song "Hound Dog" before Elvis and was openly a lesbian. #WomensArt

If we want people to change what they do, nothing equals the power of peer-to-peer influence. We need to move away from "change management" practices that assume that people will change their minds, attitudes or mindsets via rational understanding, data or emotional engagement.

How to salvage a useful process that isn’t working anymore. This case study is about surgical safety checklists at Singapore General Hospital. After more than a decade of use, they found the checklist had become a routine process focused on tasks instead of encouraging

A routine is "a sequence of actions performed as part of a regular procedure rather than for a special reason". When something is "routine", it can be perceived as dull, mechanistic, crushing creativity & agency. Yet something we see often in high performing organisations is that

Action bias. Football goalkeepers will jump to the left or right when facing penalties, even though statistically they'd be better off just staying in the middle. Action bias is the tendency to choose action over inaction, even where there's no indication that taking action will

In case you were thinking of voting Conservative or Reform. This is just the 'start price' for a visit to A&E in Guernsey, where they use the 'American model' of healthcare' that both Tories and Farage are proposing. More here: https://t.co/Me4M2NsF8W

In my many years as a leader of change, I have participated in some brilliant workshops & some terrible ones. A key issue is workshop design. I've come to understand that workshop design is more important than facilitation. If we take a systems view of the event, there are many