In an age where the late middle aged and middle income property owning demographic hold many of the financial cards, I’m interested to know what millenials (16-34… Read more “Marketing – Trends for 2016?”
Tag: change management
Exploring Community
‘Exploring Community’ – a recurring event looking:
to find out what really concerns local people
to ensure that different community groups get together – speed dating style
to erode some of the artificial / assumed boundaries between groups to ensure more cohesive working.
Being a happy human
Unhappiness – yours and others – can be caused by many things. Your own and other people’s behaviour for a start. Using the examples of racism and… Read more “Being a happy human”
Leadership & Change: Bias, Stereotypes and the Impact on Organisational Behaviour
Binna Kandola is Senior Partner and co-founder of Pearn Kandola. His areas of expertise are diversity and inclusion, equal opportunities, assessment and development. He is particularly interested in understanding bias and finding ways to reduce it through effective leadership.
In the video and presentation below, Binna Kandola cogently explains how leaders need to examine issues like bias, stereotyping, group think, how we attend to information which confirms stereotypes, how and why some workplace interventions might enforce unconscious bias and how valuing ‘difference’ can maintain stereotypes.
If I put to you this riddle, what would your answer be?
A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies instantly, and the son is taken to the nearest hospital. The doctor comes in and exlaims “I can’t operate on this boy.”
“Why not?” the nurse asks.
“Because he’s my son,” the doctor responds.
How is this possible?
Ultimately Kandola presents a challenge to engrained leadership practice, putting forward a new way of leading. It’s fascinating stuff. As marketers, leaders and as human beings, we are evolving. There is still much to do. Watch and learn.
And the answer to the riddle? The doctor is the boy’s mother. How many people tie themselves up in knots when the answer is actually very obvious and very simple, once you choose to step away from conditioned thinking.
Strategic Thinking
I’m often asked how strategic thinking can be turned into action. The answer, as with most things in life, is to strip out
Change Management
Change management is the bane of every organisation. For the last year I’ve been involved in devising and implementing the marketing strategy for
Customer Engagement: How & Why
Customer behaviour is changing, and rapidly. I’ve already covered the rise of the smartphone and the challenges that throws up for mobile commerce. Then there are the… Read more “Customer Engagement: How & Why”
