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You’ve just overheard snippets of a conversation in the corridor. Some people are discussing a meeting that’s just finished. “Time flew”… “I didn’t expect we’d achieve so much”… “that was a fantastic debate”… “amazing that we all managed to agree”… “really energised”… “can’t wait to get on with it”… You are intrigued. It’s a bit [...]

Wasting too much time in meetings? Need your meeting to reach agreement about ways of working? Need to get a fast decision on strategy or tactics? Many people hate meetings. Why? Because they frequently take up so much time and achieve so little. So what would team leaders, project managers and departmental heads give for [...]

Collective intelligence has been called the process of enhancing the group IQ and, as such, it is an extremely attractive proposition for managers and leaders. But how do you mine this intelligence? In principle we know that we can achieve more when we work together with others – but in practice how can we make [...]