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preferences v principles

Does AI know your preferences better than your principles?

A few years ago, early in experimenting with AI-assisted writing, I asked a large language model (LLM) to help me […]
8 mins
Leadership & Management
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succession planning

Succession planning in an employee-owned business: could your team run it without you?

Sooner or later, every founder who takes a business into employee ownership asks themselves a version of the same question: […]
8 mins
EO Culture
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ai values and worldview

Whose values are guiding your AI – what’s its worldview?

We often hear that AI systems need to be “aligned with human values”. It sounds reassuring, but it hides a […]
6 mins
Leadership & Management
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anonymous surveys

Does anonymous survey data actually tell you anything useful?

In 2021, Mark Whittle, Gartner’s own vice president of research and advisory, found that only 29% of employees trust their […]
8 mins
EO Culture
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ai-values

Before you give AI your prompts, give it your values

We spend a remarkable amount of time learning how to prompt AI. There are frameworks, prompt libraries, courses and endless […]
8 mins
Leadership & Management
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engaging conversations

Does profit share really move the needle on engagement?

Imagine a business that’s just become employee owned. Everyone understands, at least in principle, that they now have a stake […]
6 mins
EO Culture
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employee engagement

Motivation, engagement, ownership: why they’re not the same thing

Imagine a business that’s just become employee owned. The trustees are in place, the announcements made, with a leadership team […]
6 mins
EO Culture
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september fresh start

Everyone’s year resets this September. Does yours?

Every August, I sit down and plan Talent4Performance’s autumn. Which workshops need to go into diaries, which clients are picking […]
5 mins
Leadership & Management
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Continuous growth

How employee-owned businesses keep improving their ownership culture

Imagine asking the leaders of an employee-owned business whether its ownership culture had strengthened over the past three years. They […]
12 mins
EO Culture
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fundamental attribution error

Why That Driver Isn’t an Idiot (and Neither Are You)

I’m late for a client meeting. There was a jam further back and I’ve been making up the time ever […]
6 mins
Leadership & Management
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Collaboration for Impact

Breaking down silos: how employee-owners collaborate for whole-business performance

Breaking down silos is one of the most common ambitions in business. But imagine a business where every team is […]
7 mins
EO Culture
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immunity to change

Immunity to Change: Only Old People Go Downstairs Slowly

I developed a habit, without ever deciding to, of going down my own stairs at home as fast as I […]
6 mins
Leadership & Management
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