Riot Pointers 18: How to avoid giving your colleagues the middle finger

We need to treat big problems as we hope our medical advisors treat us—-with a clear and agreed understanding of the problem at hand.

In this episode of Riot Point Radio you get the solution the palm of your hand.

Culture R&D®, Culture, Communication, Leadership, Persuasion, Problem-solvingIwan Jenkins20 April 2021Leadership, problem solving, kaiComment

How Jurgen used KAI to win friends, influence people and make some money.

Head Office wanted to constrain him, Covid was making internal communications difficult but by using KAI, Jurgen was able to make Head Office happy, employees feel involved and developed—-oh, and he made a whack of profit as a result

Culture, Culture R&D®, Leadership, Problem-solving, StrategyIwan Jenkins10 March 2021KAI, lead, Culture R&D ™, culture, problem solvingComment

Riot Point Radio Ep 16: Isolation special. Can we talk business? Please.

What a mess this virus is creating.

Can’t go to work? Losing sales?

Can we use what’s going on to build a better business?

Yes we can.

Find out how, on this special, Isolation episode of Riot Point Radio.

new products From the Lab

The Riot Point Research scientists have been incredibly inventive in recent months. We have been trialling and refining a number of new products, and we are now ready to launch the first batch.

Customer R&D®, Leadership, Problem-solving, StrategySimon Lunt23 September 2016strategy, Leadership, InnovatorComment

Spot talent with just two questions

All leaders know the distribution of talented high performers is not Gaussian but fractal. For every one Yehudi Menuhin violin virtuoso there are many, many string scratchers.

So how can you spot potential?

I use two heuristics

Does s/he get the job done?
Do the most talented workers in the organisation want to work for her/him?

Culture R&D®, Leadership, Problem-solvingSimon Lunt23 September 2016LeadershipComment

Opportunities are not like London buses

I was reminded this weekend that opportunities are not like London buses.

You can’t deliberately miss one, confident that another is soon to follow.

When Opportunity knocks, you need to ask yourself one question:

"Does this Opportunity open more doors than it closes?"

Culture, Complexity, Leadership, Problem-solvingSimon Lunt23 September 2016Leadership, strategyComment

How to remove the pain and add the profit into Employee Engagement

Executives tell me, in their more candid moments, that they doubt the value of the ‘employee engagement survey.’

They find it time-consuming and stressful, and most have all but given up on trying to calculate any return-on-investment. No wonder then such surveys have the reputation of being “all pain and no profit.”

So why bother? The answer lies in why we form organisations.

Culture R&D®, Culture, Leadership, Problem-solvingSimon Lunt23 September 2016Culture R&D ™, Leadership Comment

Can your team deliver innovation? Find out with my Christmas Gift to you.

Are you hop-skipping delightfully from one good idea to another but never getting things done? Or are you perfecting the present, making a great sailing ship while the rest of the world moves to steam?

I have seen businesses that are so innovative, nothing ever gets completed. They flounder as they flail excitedly from one awesome idea to another. They may not run out ideas, but do they do run out of cash.

Conversely, I have worked with highly adaptive organisations who grow, painstakingly, by tweaking past successes. They make few mistakes, but one day they end up with perfect sailing ship, while the rest of the world has moved to steam.

The Holy Grail is, of course, Delivered Innovation. This requires the best of both approaches but each extreme often sees the worst of each other thus making mutual collaboration difficult.

Culture, Leadership, Problem-solvingSimon Lunt23 September 2016Leadership, problem solving, Innovator, Adaptor, KAIComment

Leading people is labour intensive; popping the bubble of the 4-hour work week

The 4-hour work week might be attainable if you forward orders of vitamin shipments to a third-party, or have only one employee—you. But if you are dependent on people to collaborate effectively for achievement of goal, here's the wake-up call. It takes time. In fact, the better your team and the bigger the change, the more time it requires.

Leading people is labour intensive. It takes time and energy. It requires passion for that role. If you don't have the appetite, stay away from this buffet.

Culture, Leadership, Problem-solving, StrategySimon Lunt23 September 2016leadership, change managementComment

Fix the slow puncture: kill the chronic relationship

Coincident with the last piece extolling you to manage your health and avoid chronic conditions, the Guardian newspaper published the cost of chronic health care to the UK NHS (hat tip to Dr Paul Davies).

The data is sobering.

health, Culture, Leadership, Problem-solvingSimon Lunt23 September 2016leadershipComment

Managing your health: a 2014 resolution you can complete today

Happy New Year to you all.

By the end of February, most of the resolutions taken yesterday (learn a new language, spend more time with the family, lose weight) will lie disassembled on the floor, like a broken Lego model given at Christmas.

The challenge of Resolutions is to break down their contributing elements into behavioural habits, and without the vitamins of resolve and planning, this seldom occurs.

But there is something you can accomplish today.

Leadership, Problem-solving, healthSimon Lunt23 September 2016leadership, healthComment