Foden Grealy – 2012

This very nearly caused a serious tea-spill this morning…

Analyst: Government’s digital leaders’ network shouldn’t be using post-it notes

It’s a story about an analyst who, having read a post on the Government Digital Service blog – First Digital Leaders’ meeting, said this…

“Why did they have a physical meeting? This could have been done far more effectively using digital tools – communication and collaboration tools that would have taken ideas and automatically captured them, rather than the joys of Post It notes and pens,”

Earlier in the day, having read the same post, I had tweeted this…

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Sitting people on chairs in rows at meetings is a criminal waste

Bee trapped in bonnet. Write…

Quite often I go to big meetings to do with changing things. Almost invariably these meetings have lots of people sitting on chairs in rows – sometimes for hours. The people at the front talk; and the people in the rows (mostly) listen.

I struggle to think of a worse way of promoting change.

Change in organisations is about encouraging people to work with other people to do things differently. If we sit them down – doing little but (if we are lucky) listening and pretty much isolated (because rows are like that) – we just can’t […]