How many of our best intentions to change are short-lived? How many resolutions to stick to a diet, drive below the speed limit or to…

Whether we’re failing to stick to a diet, breaking the speed limit or not adopting new behaviours at work, we are great at rationalising our…

How does thinking, fast and slow affect our experience of change? In his ground-breaking book, Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winning psychologist, explains how our…

Before you can lead other people through change you first need to manage and direct changes in your own behaviour. Consider two examples of change,…

Great leaders make change happen. But what are the characteristics that make them so effective? In essence, there are just five, though none of them…

When one major utilities company, with huge production sites, decided to introduce tricycles to get around site they knew there would be resistance to the…

The Trouble with Change is… is a video that sums up humorously The 5 Forces of Change approach to change management. It has had over…

The story goes back to 1971, but is still alive today. In 1971, Rick Barry, a professional NBA (National Basketball Association) basketball player in the…

We all recall how Ebenezer Scrooge is miraculously transformed in ‘A Christmas Carol’. But have you ever wondered how you could conjure up similar transformation…

A recent Radiolab podcast http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/  deals with the idea of ‘Emergence’ – how patterns of intelligent behaviour emerge in the absence of leaders. A colony…