Our Better 2025 strategy could be summed up as “Think local, act local”. Similarly, we will continue to travel this year, but we are also grateful to live somewhere so beautiful that WFH is a joy.
None of us can do much about the global movements taking society, culture, and work backwards right now. This is the homepage for the Better 2025 project.
Amidst challenging economic conditions where many businesses are struggling to stay afloat, there are still companies transforming and achieving remarkable breakthroughs. Golden Communication Group is one of the businesses Teal Unicorn has “rescued” recently. After struggling for several years, in late 2023 they invited us, Rob England and I at Teal Unicorn to come & help transforming their organisation. By the end of 2024, Golden had achieved impressive results
Celebrating the 19th birthday of Two Hills Ltd, founded 14th December 2005. With a retrospective of 19 years of achievements.
Sketching the main descriptors of the idealised hypothetical perfect “Open executive”, as per Teal Unicorn’s Open philosophy of work; compared to the equally hypothetical worst-possible “conventional executive”.
How does Performance Management look different in Open Management? Because who doesn’t love a flowchart.
The Inner Development Goals Framework exactly matches what we say in our new book, The Open Executive. We considered rewriting to use the structure when we discovered it, but we were already on the 7th rewrite, so we settled for enjoying the confirmation.
In our tradition of transparency, here is our marketing funnel design for 2025. Comments welcomed.
Let’s see if we can resurrect a word that has fallen out of favour: “progress”. Humanity has made fabulous progress in the last two centuries, thanks to science and technology. People live longer and healthier, travel widely, learn anything they want, hear about the planet. There has never been a better time to be alive. But there will be better ones ahead. That’s progress.
One sees a lot of talk about how capitalism cares only for the shareholders, willing to abuse and kill people to maximise profits. It’s simply not true. Capitalism is an emergent property of society, like money or art. You can’t remove it. Somebody always profits from the means of production, as all the failed attempts at Communism have shown.
In our book S&T Happens we talked about the shrinking distance ahead that organisations can see – how planning increasingly becomes waste. A recent CIO.com article supports that, talking about the impact on IT roadmaps.