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Insights, evidence and perspectives from the world of performance, risk, leadership and AI.

We explore the patterns, behaviours and organisational dynamics shaping decisions, performance and change.

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Ownership: Turning passengers into drivers
29.11.2024
Organisations in which everyone feels an emotional investment demonstrate employee behaviours of alignment, engagement and autonomy. And the simplest and most compelling route to creating a culture of ownership is to create a feeling of ownership of the purpose the or...
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How can you manage corporate risk through culture?
10.09.2024
Managing corporate risk is usually about processes and oversight to predict and avoid human error. But we all know it’s people that cause problems, and who will save you from them if they care enough. As Warren Buffett says “culture, more than rule books determine...
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Why purpose lies at the heart of corporate resilience
03.04.2024
According to Forbes, the key things that derail resilience in the businesses they studied were all cultural; rigidity of hierarchy, lack of clarity, conflicting objectives with no clear prioritisation, and poor care of people. How can an authentic purpose help?
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Face the future with a lot more humility
05.12.2023
Purpose leads to higher engagement and profitability. But you cannot show whether your purpose is working if you cannot measure it and ESG does not measure purpose. We want to prove it's happening and the Contexis Index gives us a measure of where we go next.
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Leadership? It’s followship we should be worried about
19.06.2023
Everyone recognises that employee engagement is the absolute key to higher productivity, efficiency, agility and financial performance. And this is seen as a “Leadership Challenge”. But what if this isn’t a top-down problem at all? What if it isn’t really.
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Humanising business – the new organisational imperative
22.05.2023
The role of business in society has changed. But what does humanising business actually mean?
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