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…
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…
Learning To Smile As You Kill
Politics in business is an inevitability and so to solemnly declare that you are not going to play the game is rather naive. Simply put, others are playing the game…
In Sickness and in Health
We often hear and talk about the ‘healthy organization’ and whilst corporate health is talked about quite a lot, a true understanding of the importance of monitoring…
Differing Dimensions
All organizations operate in two dimensions: the dimension of getting the work done (which is the horizontal dimension) and the dimension of reporting relationships…
Top Team Tragedy
Few teams that we come across are optimized and fully functional. While we like the fun part of dysfunctional, underperforming teams at any level create drag on…
Caution - Learners Ahead
It’s a fact, and contrary to certain prejudices and misconceptions, employees can learn to behave in new ways. However, people learn only if they are motivated…
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 Zeitgeist we are not…
Bringing the House Down
You may have seen an interesting news item recently about an imposing 18th Century French Chateau being bulldozed ‘by mistake’… If, like the villagers of Yvrac…