by Larkenby | Jun 10, 2022 | blog
Not only did Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) influence many business experts’ favourite management guru Peter Drucker, who referred to her as the ‘prophet of management’, but also Maslow, creator of the famous hierarchy of needs, and many others who...
by Larkenby | Jun 10, 2022 | blog
I’m working with an organisation whose volunteer workforce outnumbers its paid team by almost 4:1 and, in the serendipitous way of things, a wonderful remark was dropped into an interview during a discussion I hosted between three of their on-the-ground team members....
by Larkenby | Jun 10, 2022 | blog
Funny old things, values. Firmly fixed and yet to underpin cultural transformation they must be fantastically flexible too.* Values come from the heart. From the belly, even. Deep down, you know they’re true. They’re about belief, emotion, intuition .....
by Larkenby | Jun 10, 2022 | blog
Did Boris turn a blind eye, or encourage the parties? (Let’s assume that he did actually know they weren’t strictly work.) And – also assuming we agree that the people who create the rules for the rest of us have a moral duty to adhere to them – which is a...
by Larkenby | Jun 10, 2022 | blog
Culture is at its most authentic furthest away from the C-Suite. If your values are not wholehearted, are not driven into every action, then they will simply not reach that far. If you genuinely have a values-driven culture, it will hold true at that point. So I am...
by Larkenby | Jun 10, 2022 | blog
If you’ve got a nagging feeling that your culture needs addressing, a really good place to start is with your values. You undoubtedly have some in place, but it’s worth really interrogating them: are they evident in the life of your organisation, and do they help you...
