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…
The Great Training Robbery
One of the critical foundations of a successful and sustainable company is the ability to generate, nurture and regenerate talent on an ongoing basis. To enable…
Press Release
FORMER U.K. CONSUL GENERAL RUPERT POTTER JOINS GROWING INTERNATIONAL FIRM, OPTIMIZE CONSULTING Brexit creates great opportunity for adaptable, proactive businesses.…
Soft is Hard
Making organizational change stick for performance improvement initiatives is difficult. Different functions with different priorities and often distinct cultures…
Kung Fu for Business
Recently here at Zeitgeist we were thinking about philosophy and the links to leadership and organizational culture – don’t ask why we were thinking philosophy,…
Apple Turnover
We were inspired by a story coming out of Alaska to write a blog about the importance of changing course when it becomes obvious that the route you have set yourself…
Flight of the Bumblebee
From the title you might assume that here at Zeitgeist we have become fascinated with orchestral interludes and specifically the one written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov…
Tired of Change
Leo Tolstoy is quoted as stating “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” The world around us is awash with ‘movements…
Cultivating Culture
Cultures exist wherever there is a collection of people, however big or small that group is. The group could be as large as a nation or as small as a student study…
The Dog Ate My Homework
A common response to the realization that you occasionally work from home is the question “How do you concentrate?” This is natural, given that many office-bound…
No Use Lion About It
An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud – when the creature started barking in front of visitors. Chinese media reports…
It's all about me...or is it?
From time to time we use the Prisoner’s Dilemma strategy game when working with clients to demonstrate the importance of collaboration in achieving a successful…
Telling It Like It Is
In all but one organizational health diagnostic that we have completed, the subject of communication ranks as the number one issue or should we say ‘opportunity’.…
Dung Roamin'
So there we were thinking about strategy when the lowly Dung Beetle sprang to mind. Bear with us on this…… It seems that the beetle uses our Milky Way as a reference…
Cultivating Culture
There is no subject quite like Bullfighting for stirring the emotions and very few people remain ambivalent. You either support it as ‘art’ and part of the rich…