Vive Le Tour
As the Tour de France grinds its way through the mountains in the second week we were considering it as a metaphor for life, for business life and for our careers.…
Wood for the Trees
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…
The Coefficient of Restitution
The Coefficient of Restitution (COR) is a measure of the “restitution” of a collision between two objects: how much of the kinetic energy remains for…
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…
A Transformation Tale
Transformations call for more than rhetoric and superficial conversations around change. Old and existing habits need to be challenged and potentially discarded…
Busy? So what?
How many times do people let you know that they are just “really busy?” But what are these people actually working on? Why are they busy and importantly have…
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…
Philosophy of Culture
Individuals have an identity and so do organizations. An organization’s identity is derived from its Purpose (the fundamental reason why the organization exists)…
Whatever Happened to Pong?
We quote the Frank Black song as our title for this blog as we hear the news that Atari has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US. For those of us old enough…