Over the last year, I've introduced several hundred executives and postgraduate students to the concept of mindfulness, our capacity to pay attention to the present situation with the intention to remain open, curious, and flexible ...

At yesterday’s Business Performance Roundtable we spent a lot of time looking at examples where the use of data created actionable insight with the help of David Anker from Lightfoot Solutions and Alan Meekings from ...

Hi Mike, Hope you are well.  I stumbled across your paper (Franco-Santos et al, 2014) via linked in and would like to congratulate you and your colleagues on an excellent piece of work. From my ...

New research conducted by Cranfield School of Management on behalf of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) shows that, in response to pressures to perform, universities may in fact be damaging their own future ...

No one is more surprised than me that my thesis has potential. You see, as a student in Cranfield University’s MSc Managing Organizational Performance, I initially struggled with my thesis. I focused on organizational learning, ...

How does your organisation deliver value to your customers and your owners? Over the Christmas period, our minds turned to kitchens (new floors rather than completely new kitchens luckily). Howdens Joinery Co have been advertising ...

Christmas is the time of good cheer, goodwill to all and long distance travel. And so it was for me this Christmas. My journey from the South of England to Edinburgh was relatively easy with ...

At the CIPD performance management conference today, Simon McDougle explained how and why Adobe took out the annual performance review. Why would you do that? Simply, the negative impact and poor morale it was causing ...

Yesterday Ryanair announced that their bookings over the summer were less than expectation and their forward bookings for September and October were not as strong as expected. Michael O’Leary was quoted as this being due ...

One of the modules I teach at Cranfield University's Executive MSc in Managing Organisational Performance is about improving organisational decisions, in particular those relating to measuring and managing performance. There is a great need in ...