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The Death of Command & Control

28 August 2020

Having a remote workforce has huge consequences for all elements of organisational success, but perhaps none more fundamental than the role of leadership...

When Normal Can’t Get Any Weirder, How Do You Innovate?

19 August 2020

Allow me to use the word meme so much it loses all meaning. And intentionally so! Because memes aren’t just a complex series of strange jokes that Generation X don’t understand...

Need an App? There’s No-Code for That

12 August 2020

As a budding Product Designer I’ve spent years studying and refining my coding skills, but never did I imagine I’d chuck HTML, CSS, and Javascript out the proverbial window...

Cultural Diversity Is Not Just Good for Innovation, It’s Great for Business

17 June 2020

Cultural diversity is talked about a lot in social media, in terms of business and relationships, but it’s not discussed enough when it comes to innovation. Cultural diversity directly contributes to innovation and provides a platform for diverse thoughts and ideas to seep into an organisation...

Want to Get the Best Out of Me? Then Read My User Manual : – )

20 May 2020

In the &us coaching team we’ve just kicked off one of our biggest projects to date: simultaneously training 6 different teams from a huge global pharma company on how to work and collaborate with agility in order to crack some of their biggest challenges...

We Can’t Go It Alone

14 May 2020

Imagine a world where we managed for the long term. A world where big companies didn’t hoard secrets, attack each other at every opportunity, and didn’t need months of negotiations to collaborate on anything...

Leading From the Front: 5 Brilliant Reasons Why Leaders Should Trust Their Teams and Get Out the Way

4 May 2020

We’ve learned a lot, these last few months. About ourselves, and our families; about what we define as ‘essential’, and we’ve learned a great deal about our leaders. This crisis has exposed the flaws of many organisations and leaders...

What Has to Happen for Innovation to Become Normal?

24 April 2020

If the job ‘head of innovation’ didn’t exist, because everybody was innovative-by-nature, then what would heads of innovation do? Where would they channel their bravery? What would they take risks on...

How I Learned to Fail and Embraced It

17 April 2020

I never imagined when I signed up for my MA course in Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins I’d end up doing a project on ‘uncertainty’!...

Leading From the Front: 5 Brilliant Reasons Why Leaders Should Trust Their Teams and Get Out the Way

4 May 2020

What Has to Happen for Innovation to Become Normal?

24 April 2020

Top Tips and Tactics for Nurturing Kick-Ass Distributed Teams

17 February 2020

At &us we’re a little bit obsessed with what it takes to create the right environment and conditions for talented teams to unleash their potential to make great things...

Your ‘Big Bang’ Transformation Won’t Work

28 January 2020

Everywhere we turn, another organisation is on a mission to ‘transform’. To become more ‘digital’, more ‘agile’, more ‘customer centric’, etc...

5 Bold Moves

19 November 2019

There’s a lot of confusion about what 'agility' really is, and what it takes to do it right. Since the agile manifesto was launched, it’s built cult-like status amongst digital evangelists and whole industries have been created around maintaining its mystique...

The Value of Coaching

14 November 2019

We all know how hard change is — and how often it’s unsupported. Much like a personal trainer will push you to get better results at the gym, coaching in the workplace helps teams going through a period of change meet the challenge head-on...

Making Things Better

18 October 2019

To us, ‘making’ means creating or improving ‘things’ — from product and services to big programmes of work, to internal processes and new ways of working. It sounds simple but many big organisations struggle to do this well...