Collaboration | Liberating Potential

01 Sep 2015

Back from Holiday? Time to Deal with the ‘Unfinished Business’

David Collaboration, Organisational Development

Returning to work, were there some unfinished tasks that surfaced in your mind from time to time whilst on holiday, at least in the first and last few days? In an experiment about memory recall reported in 1927, the psychologist Kurt Lewin gave subjects a sequence of simple tasks to complete. In some cases they were allowed to finish their work and in others they were interrupted...

Can Restructuring Break Down Organisation Silos?

David Collaboration, Leadership, Organisational Development

One way organisations try to improve collaboration is to restructure, for example moving from a functional, hierarchical to a matrix structure. Structures do need to be contingent and in today’s world there is a need for more cross-functional as well as inter-organisation working. But does structural change lead to the changes in working relationships needed to achieve the required ...