What if subtraction helped us to be in touch with purpose? Thinking and acting by subtraction – Part two
So what can we do? The solution is not to eliminate addition completely, it is not in binary and polarized thinking… what we can do is, every time we think about a problem, remind ourselves that there is also the possibility of taking away. So it is not a question of stopping adding, we have […]
What if subtraction helped us to be in touch with purpose? – Part one
The following post is an excerpt of a talk that Nexus gave at one of two conferences, held at a large multinational company, on the day that is annually dedicated to a collective reflection on purpose. We will publish it in two parts, corresponding to two blogposts, one, this week, introductory and one, next week, […]
Promoting inclusive leadership from recruitment onwards
Many organisations have been committed for years to promoting a culture of inclusiveness, which guarantees all people equality of treatment, rights and opportunities to belong. But how can we increase the chances that, from the moment they join the company, new people will be aligned with and contribute to this commitment? This is the question […]
Othering
This morning while reading the newspaper I was struck by a piece of news. A family in Palermo had agreed to take in refugees from the Ukraine, especially students of economics and medicine. When the refugees arrived, the family realised that the refugees from Ukraine were two Nigerian students studying in Kiev, who were fleeing […]
“Manterrupting’ – do we really still need to talk about it?
Manterrupting is a phenomenon that has been described and publicised for many years now. It has been explored, ridiculed, caricatured, dissected and analysed for many years. Just by searching for the hashtag on social networks, hundreds of examples, researches, articles illustrating it come up… so why talk about it again? Marianne is a young executive […]
The link between risk aversion and the inner critic: self-sabotage in transformative decisions
Emma is an executive in a multinational company. She is 40 years old and her career path is built on a continuous series of successes, brilliant results, a very fast progression, until she was promoted to her last position, as marketing director of one of the company’s business units, a few months ago, crowning a […]
‘Illusion of transparency bias’: when we don’t take the risk of actually meeting the other
The illusion of transparency was first defined in 1998, in an article published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, by the research team consisting of Thomas Gilovich, Victoria H. Medvec, Kenneth Savistsy. It consists of ‘the tendency of people to overestimate the extent to which others can discern their internal states’. The name […]
Unconscious Bias and the performance management and development process
This week for our blogpost on bias we are not going to talk about a single bias but, as we have already done on climate change, we will take a cluster of biases, in particular some of those that impact performance management. Innovations in this area have been taking place regularly in recent years, in […]
Holidays, gifts & gender stereotypes
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson For this week’s bias we chose to remain in the light-heartedness and playfulness of the end-of-year celebrations that have just ended and on a topic that we are passionate about: gender bias and in particular behaviors that risk reinforcing it from childhood. Just before […]
“There’s a crisis, let’s appoint a woman”: dynamics and pitfalls of the Glass Cliff
Suzanne is an executive at a large French company in the energy sector. She is told that she will be leading the digital transformation project, a key cross-cutting project that will involve the whole company over the coming months, a role for which she will report directly to the CEO. The project was led until […]
