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The Law of the Small Team
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The Law of the Small Team

Small teams are essential to create a customer-centric company. With self-organising leadership and alignment to the overall product roadmap, they are given the autonomy to decide what to build, how to build it, and how to work together while building it.
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David Seacombe
The Law of the Network
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The Law of the Network

Work flows smoothly and continuously. Instead of major programmes of work requiring significant capital investment, we move the whole company to an agile way of working where we continually respond to customer needs, and deliver increasing customer value.
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David Seacombe
An Individual's Guide to Working Remotely
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An Individual's Guide to Working Remotely

Working at home all of the time is a lot different from staying in one day to receive a delivery. It requires some behavioural shifts, but once you realise what needs to change, you'll feel more confident.
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David Seacombe
Why Digital Transformation Fails
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Why Digital Transformation Fails

Many organisational change initiatives fail. We discuss hostility and indifference, encumbrance by the past, making the true commitment, a failure to iterate, starting with technology first, and, biggest of all, strategy execution. Knowing the reasons for failure informs what to do to succeed.
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Functional Building Blocks
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Functional Building Blocks

Products each have one of more operational functions, and each function itself is made up of smaller functional parts. Benefits arise when each of these smaller parts has one distinct purpose and is capable of being built and maintained by a small team.
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David Seacombe
How to Innovate
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How to Innovate

Innovation is essential to stay relevant and to grow your business. The successful surfacing of new ideas is crucial to being able to improve ways of working, to bring new and improved products and services to market, increase efficiency and, most importantly, to give new value to customers.
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Paul Whiteside
Innovation keeps you Trading
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Innovation keeps you Trading

Innovation is at the heart of any business. No company, however successful, can stand still. Change happens whether you want it to or not. Successful leaders must reimagine and reinvent traditional legacy businesses or face becoming irrelevant in the market.
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David Seacombe
Leadership Tensions
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Leadership Tensions

Most workers today would agree that org charts cannot even remotely describe the reality of working life. Hierarchy works for setting up corporate contracts and paying taxes. Over-emphasis on formal structures reduces effectiveness and inhibits innovation. There are alternate structures.
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David Seacombe
Chief of Staff
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Chief of Staff

Your CxO can’t do everything themselves. There is so much noise in the world. They need someone to help manage strategy and innovation and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. A Chief of Staff works alongside their Exec as a force multiplier.
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David Seacombe
People Matter
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People Matter

Whatever our background, all of us are a diverse mixture of our past and present, with our own hopes and fears, abilities and weaknesses. Together we represent society, and by embracing the breadth of what we all offer then we are also relevant to and engaged with our customers.
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David Seacombe
Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose
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Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose

Happy and productive people are those who are given the freedom to make decisions, those who have the confidence of being on top of their game, and those who are working towards positive outcomes. Our customer-centric world will thrive when staff themselves are focused, trained and empowered.
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David Seacombe
What makes your team tick?
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What makes your team tick?

Do you know what you need to do to get your team to perform at their best? Do you wonder why they bicker over seemingly insignificant matters? We've been using a workplace motivation tool to help our clients understand themselves and their teams better, and to unleash their potential.
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