Author Archives: Bruce Lewin
What are Bioteams?
I stumbled across Ken Thompson’s blog which looks at Bioteams. This is a new idea to me, but I like the sound of self organising teams, developing some of the biological metaphors and applying them to organisations and teams. Ken’s … Continue reading
4G Research – Validity and Reliability
For those people interested in the statistics and research behind psychometrics in general and 4G in particular, we’ve just added a new page to the site with a summary of the reliability and validity of 4G. This is only a … Continue reading
Character traits and their use
There is always lots of talk of competencies, traits and the links to performance. I think there are basically two ways to cut this cake. The first, as implied by Rebecca Thomas and Curt Rosengren, looks at the use of … Continue reading
The changing role of HR
I read an interesting piece on the evolution of the HR function within organisations and organisational culture. Just as IT and Finance departments mature, so does HR. This author, writing partially from a Japanese perspective at least, comments * The … Continue reading
Transitionist – Get it before its gone
A great bit of lingual humour via Terrence Seamon who mentions the newly minted term “Transitionist” Transition is most esentially about change and thanks to the suffix ‘-ist’ to be a transitionist is to be adept at transitions and more … Continue reading
Putting a number on HR?
Andrew Weissman picked up on the popular theme of measuring and placing a value on HR. Andrew wrote In exploring the concept of how to measure the return an enterprise receives from its investment in people (the largest single investment … Continue reading
Covert and Overt Management Styles
Tom at the wonderfully titled “HR for the leader in you” has written of another example of traditional, covert management styles that clearly don’t cover the whole piece; A man came up to me after my speech on leadership the … Continue reading
Emotions Mapped by New Geography
Bruce Hoppe caught my eye with a rather fetching historical article on Psychological Geography! I’ve included the picture below and you can find the original here. The original is from the New York Times, 3rd April, 1933. Whatever happened to … Continue reading
Organisational Culture, Transformation and the use of Role Models
I was reading “The Psychology of Change Management” in the McKinsey Quarterly and found some interesting thoughts about the psychology of change management! Of the four conditions cited, the use of role models seemed particularly apt. People must also see … Continue reading
Merger Integration
I am often left with an unanswered question when I come across the idea that; As two organizations come together, it is vitally important to make sure that everyone knows the ground rules, and that the new organization takes the … Continue reading
