Psychological safety gives senior leaders new, actionable insights into staff productivity that significantly improve their organisation’s financial performance. 

This article summarises the findings of “Project Aristotle”, in which Google researchers studied what made a team effective at Google. The researchers found that “what really mattered was less about who was on the team, and more about how the team worked together.”

NASA couldn’t afford another failure following the tragic launches of the Challenger (1986) and the Columbia (2003). If you’re not aware, NASA’s culture at that time could be summed up by the sign in the Mission Evaluation Room: "In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data".

Gunpei Yokoi was an electronics graduate who landed a job at Nintendo in 1965, which was a small card-making operation in Kyoto, Japan at that time. The heart of Yokoi’s philosophy was putting simple technology to use in new ways that no one else considered. He called his approach “lateral thinking with withered technology.”

Taking some time out to reflect on a challenging, dynamic profession, this e-book presents critical mistakes that I’ve made, key learnings from facilitators in our network, and common issues that tend to arise based on a review of the literature. 

A popular and versatile facilitation tool, there are many reasons a manager or facilitator may decide to bring in icebreaker questions:

Whether you’re in-house or independent, rookie or veteran, running a 1-hour onsite meeting or 3-day workshop retreat, working with 3 or 300 attendees, these basic tips will help you sharpen your facilitation game.

This list includes books that have been selected because they are either extremely popular, frequently referred to, or groundbreaking in business literature. Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories.