What Kind of Boss Are You – Star or Idiot?
We spend a lot of time thinking, coaching and writing about the challenges of talented people frustrated with life inside big organizations. If you’re the leader,…
Balance of Power
Rest and recovery are a crucial part of any exercise program. After putting your body through a significant amount of stress during a grueling workout, you have…
It's a Slow Fade
When dealing with a lack of engagement amongst the workforce the key is to recognize the early warning signs. Often it really is a slow fade – rarely do people…
Seek and Destroy
When working with clients on developing their strategy, too often we see them tempted to adopt a “me too” strategy – simply copying what the competition are…
Improbable Awards
The Ig Nobel awards are now in their 34th year and here at Optimize we look forward to this whacky awards ceremony every year. The awards are the result of the science…
Divided We Fall
Celebrating diversity is key to a healthy organization and we don’t just mean in terms of ethnicity, gender etc. We mean celebrating the fact that others have…
New Year, New You?
A famous line from Alice in Wonderland is “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” and here at Optimize we think it’s pretty…
Pudding Politics
As the festive season’s ultimate celebration looms large in the form of the mighty Christmas dinner we would like to provide a few paragraphs to honour the Christmas…
A Year in Review
As we march headlong into the final month of the year many minds turn to the dreaded annual performance review. The truth be told that here at Optimize we are not…
If You Know, You Know
Knowledge is a strategic asset and while it has always been good practice to treat it as such, in more recent times, and going into the future, the need is perhaps…
Now What?
Today, organizations of all kinds are reevaluating their strategies as they face unprecedented levels of change in their industries and the world. While the strategic…
Culture Shift
When thinking about making a shift in culture we need to clearly understand that any cultural transformation takes a long time. How long is long? Well that depends…