Inside intelligence

How do you know if purpose is working effectively in your culture?  And if it isn’t, why not? Pursuing ‘purpose’ without understanding the cultural attributes that activate it is at best a waste of time.

What drives the extraordinary agility of the best entrepreneurial businesses is not 'having a purpose' but that purposefulness is credibly, congruently, consistently and authentically lived in the organisation. And that starts with trust.

90% of CEOs don’t believe their business is moving fast enough to adapt to the changing world. It raises a mass of questions. The answer is the ability to make decisions contextually to create clarity and direction rather than getting bogged down in the content. An...

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...

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...

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?