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  Finding flow is hard, but possible
  Why does our productivity rarely meet our own expectations? When planning our work, most of us make a reasonable effort to estimate how long we'll need. While any given task seems perfectly doable on its own, when we string together a sequence of them we rarely achieve our target. If we were as productive as
  mediumThe U Journey: Running the Foundation Workshop
  This is Part Two of our series on the 'Explore' phase of The U Journey to guide an organisation through a transformation. In Part One we looked at how to set up the Foundation Workshop for success. We considered its purpose, where it fits in the overall U Journey and some social processes required to
  How to change: Introducing Theory U
  Bringing about deep change in an organisation is hard. Legendary management consultant W Edwards Deming claimed that transformation was simply not possible without profound knowledge: appreciation for a system, knowledge of variation, theory of knowledge and the psychology of people society and change. With my engineering background, I appreciate the systems view, understand variation, and
  In the movie City Slickers, cowboy Jack Palance is riding with Billy Crystal who's slowly shrugging off a midlife crisis. He asks if Crystal knows what the secret of life is. 'No, what?' The old-timer raises his index finger and, pausing for dramatic effect, says, 'One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and