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June 29, 2021

Value to Values: are democracy and capitalism past their sell-by date?

After the financial crisis of 2008, the penny finally dropped for a lot of business people. A dawning realisation emerged that there was something seriously wrong with the mantra that companies exist solely to generate ‘shareholder value’. Leadership commentator Steve Denning went as far as declaring Milton Freidman’s advocation of shareholder value as “the world’s […]

July 23, 2021

Seeking peace with not being good enough

My pin number was 2000, my computer login password was Sydney. To say, I was singularly focused on my goal of being part of the GB Olympic rowing squad at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 would be an understatement. Years and years of training, sacrificing important family time and events and any sort of social […]

June 17, 2021

Appreciation

Why now is the perfect time for appreciation As we emerge, blinking into the June sun, it’s worth taking time to focus on appreciation. Many of us have struggled with lockdown, distance from friends and family, even illness and loss in the last year. Appreciation could be just what we all need to start to […]

June 8, 2021

The biology of performance: answering your HRV questions

Being able to make the right choices, at work and at home, requires clear thinking. And if we want to be able to think clearly, we must pay attention to our biology. At Complete, we’ve been tracking the biology of leaders during a normal working day using heart rate variability (HRV) technology for more than […]

June 3, 2021

Are you a human being or a human doing?

Do you spend most of your waking hours wading through your to do lists and never feeling entirely satisfied that you have completed every task? Dr Alan Watkins‘ 4D Leadership can help So many of us are busy doing all the time, it’s hardly surprising that we give little thought to the being and relating aspects […]

May 28, 2021

Hope on World Hunger Day

When we think of hunger we naturally think about the absence of food and the 2 billion people on our planet who are starving. But we should also include the additional 2 billion people who are over fed and undernourished because they live in poverty. They live in what are called ‘food deserts’, where the […]

May 4, 2021

Global Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You

The Star Wars franchise was born 44 years ago when a simple young farm boy got a magic sword from an old wizard so he could defeat evil, rescue a princess, and save the world. George Lucas can’t have been the first person to have this idea. Many children create similar narratives. Although, the details […]

April 21, 2021

Wising up to the wicked problem of climate change

If ever there were ever a wicked problem, it’s climate change. All wicked problems have multiple dimensions, multiple causes, multiple stakeholders, multiple solutions and are always evolving. While the problem of climate change may not be new, it is certainly receiving renewed focus right now. President Biden has recently issued new executive orders, and appointed […]

April 13, 2021

Successfully transitioning back to our shared workspaces

Remote working has become so pervasive for many of us over the last year that we’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to be in a shared workspace. For some, the benefits of no commuting and more personal space have been welcome. For others, the continuous Zoom or Teams meetings and lack of face-to-face contact have […]

April 1, 2021

The Boat Race – it’s going to be emotional

The 166th men’s and 75th women’s’ Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race this Sunday April 4th, relocated to the River Ouse at Ely, should be of interest to anyone who cares about emotions and human performance. Rowing must be the commonest sporting metaphor used in organisations to clarify what exceptional teamwork looks like. In these days […]

March 24, 2021

The Complete Team Journey

What is a team journey and why does it work? Complete runs Team Journeys for many major organisations and you can read case studies of the performance impact for both senior teams and the whole organisation, but this week we take a step back to find out what exactly a team journey is. To answer […]

March 15, 2021

Why we’ve got the innovation process all wrong and how to fix it

We are in the paradoxical position where everyone recognises how important innovation is, but no one agrees what it is or what successful innovation actually looks like. Just about everyone thinks it’s important. And everyone mentions innovation as one of the few ways to counter economic bad weather, create competitive advantage and drive growth. Innovation […]

February 25, 2021

The HR (R)Evolution: Change the Workplace

This week marks the anniversary of the launch of The HR (R)Evolution: Change the Workplace, Change the World by Dr Alan Watkins and Nick Dalton. The late February London launch party was a sociable affair and although there was some talk of the coronavirus outbreak, there was much more discussion of whether HR could become […]

February 23, 2021

Beyond resilience – how to get on, not just get by

We’re a year into the coronavirus outbreak in the UK and we’re now entering the next phase of our response. The route out of lockdown has been outlined and the vaccination programme is offering some light. How have you managed? How hard has it been for you? We’re not just talking materially, but also emotionally […]

February 9, 2021

Dealing with Isolation

Deep into Lockdown 2.0 and we hear from many friends and colleagues that this time it’s harder than before. It could be that the novelty of the ‘all in it together’ situation has worn off, it’s been longer since we had a good get together with others, the weather isn’t as good or we’re struggling […]

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