Current blog 2009 archive 2008 archive Blog Current Blog DigitalNow - Are you IN Posted on: Monday, July 05, 2010 / 00:00 hrs A few months ago I was lucky to be invited to speak at DigitalNow. Here is the speech I gave » more Talent Management - just a thought Posted on: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 / 00:00 hrs can the new UK government teach us something about how to tackle the most difficult part of talent management? » more The rule of false equity Posted on: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 / 00:00 hrs They say we get the leaders we deserve (not sure who 'they' are by the way) and watching the way the UK's elections are going I must agree with that! There is a strange thing going on from which any leader can learn a lot. » more The Power of Muddling Through Posted on: Monday, March 01, 2010 / 00:00 hrs The current crisis needs us to rediscover the most underrated yet powerful tool leaders have at their disposal - the power of muddling through. » more Keep calm but dont carry on Posted on: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 / 00:00 hrs As another year passes I find it worth pausing to think about our inability to mobilize and act to solve some of our challenges. » more See you at Disney! Posted on: Friday, December 11, 2009 / 00:00 hrs DigitalNow conference 2010 promises to be an amazing event even if I say so myself! » more Flashforward and leadership Posted on: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 / 00:00 hrs Over the last few weeks I have become quite an avid viewer of the TV series FlashForward. The reason I mention this is that I have been spending the last few days traveling the UK speaking at conferences and it occurred to me that, along will my fellow speakers, I was playing the FlashForward game without fully taking into account its consequences. » more down logic lane Posted on: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 / 00:00 hrs On my way to running a workshop in oxford a few weeks back I found myself walking past Logic Lane. Bad humor aside walking past Logic Lane reminded me of how most businesses function according to some deeply held beliefs that are logically sound. Yet, logic is not the same as truth. Businesses gain a lot in exploiting not the flawed logic of their competitors but the truth that lies unseen. » more play can save lives Posted on: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 / 00:00 hrs Yesterday I posted an item on how fun can change behavior. In response one of my contact at BT plc passed on to me this link to the playpump system. This is how a simple insight (fun can change behaviour) can be turned into a life saving solution » more No pain plenty of gain Posted on: Monday, October 19, 2009 / 00:00 hrs Why is it that we believe that we cannot gain without pain. Why is fun at work valued only as a balance for hard work? Can we change behaviors and achieve better results through fun? Seems like we can indeed. » more First do nothing Posted on: Friday, October 09, 2009 / 00:00 hrs Often I am asked what is the main thing or the first thing or even the one thing (any permutation is possible here) leaders should do to become more successful. Having failed many times to come up with something clever I now have my answer! » more the leadership song Posted on: Monday, September 28, 2009 / 00:00 hrs don't worry this is not a blog entry about some new chant that leaders must sing to be effective but rather a simple analogy to help you prioritise » more The biggest con on planet business Posted on: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 / 00:00 hrs Following on from my post on incentive pay a lot of people have asked me about my view of performance management, so here goes - no performance management system I know of actually helps manage performance. » more Is incentive pay damaging your business? Posted on: Sunday, August 30, 2009 / 00:00 hrs A lot has been written and said about the damage incentives can do to our economy. Yet, we seem to be locked so strongly in our world of incentives that we refuse to believe what we know to be true (Royals seldom start revolutions). Here is a new important contribution to that debate. » more The ROI of nothing is nothing Posted on: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 / 00:00 hrs We are all familiar with the saying that we all know the price of things but not their costs (e.g. low price food can have an enormous environmental cost) but I wonder how many business leaders are familiar with Einstein's assertion that 'not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts'. » more Buy it, read it, get down with the kids Posted on: Thursday, August 06, 2009 / 00:00 hrs This week saw the publication of the August issue of Management Today magazine which carries the first non commissioned review of Leadershift. It is easy to be taken in by peer reviews (in my case I guess academics, journalists and consultants) but the real test is the review of people you set out to help. So I guess some of the key questions we all have to ask of ourselves are: » more Lean or skinny - is your organization healthy? Posted on: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 / 00:00 hrs The dictionary defines lean as 1. (of a person or animal) thin, esp. healthily so; having no superfluous fat. For months now it has been received wisdom that in a recession lean organizations would do better. But there is evidence this may not be as true as it seems. » more Leading the Torchwood way Posted on: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 / 00:00 hrs The latest Torchwood mini series had a lot of things to teach leaders. In a decision worthy (or inspired by) the GE jack Welsh playbook, governments of the world decide that they should give up the bottom 10% of their children on the basis of school test results. » more About Emmanuel Register for updates Follow this blog on Alltop Website contents copyrignt © Emmanuel Gobillot 2008 | Registered in England and Wales: Emmanuel Gobillot Limited No. 6320110. Registered office: Emmanuel Gobillot Limited, 83 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, London SW1V 4PS, UK

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