Strategy

Become un-fixed for creativity!

by Damian Hamill 10:52 - 14th May 2012

What can a candle, a box of drawing pins and a box of matches tell us about creativity? This was the question posed and answered by psychologist, Karl Duncker in the 1940s. Before we go further please have a look at the photograph below showing the afore-mentioned three things.

CIPD research suggests ‘David Brent’ may be commoner than you think.

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 11th May 2012

A recent report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development does not make very comfortable reading for those managers who think they are the best thing since sliced bread. Read on to find out what the CIPD discovered and how companies can respond to address the ‘reality gap’...

RISE to the challenge of whistle-blowing!

by Damian Hamill 00:00 - 30th April 2012

I recently read an article which reported a call by Professor David Lewis of Middlesex University, one of the UK’s leading employment law experts, for companies to actively reward and protect whistle-blowers within their organisation. Read on to find out how we at Watt Works can contribute to this...

Occupied no more – no goals set means no goals reached!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 1st March 2012

I have just been sent a newspaper clipping about the final removal of the Occupy movement protesters from outside St Paul’s Cathedral by someone who read a blog I wrote on the subject last October. He seemed to think that the content of my blog had been prophetic...

Sleep as a Creativity Skill? Sleep on it.

by Damian Hamill 11:45 - 6th January 2012

Someone is stuck on a problem. They’ve thought about it endlessly to no avail. Someone suggests that they “sleep on it” and, lo-and-behold, the following morning the solution is staring them in the face. We’ve probably all had experiences like this and wondered if the emergence of a...

Sleep – a very productive night-shift!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 5th January 2012

Today I read a post from an intelligent, accomplished and resourceful person lamenting the fact that if she wanted to get another two hours work done a day she would not be able to continue getting out of bed at 7:30am. Let’s set aside the fact that half past...

Sport Psychology – hit your targets by staying in the ‘Now’!

by Paul Russell 10:30 - 3rd January 2012

I was watching the semi-finals of the Darts PDC World Championships last night and witnessed one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. In this ‘First to 6 Sets is the Winner’ match, James Wade was 5 - 1 up against reigning champion, Adrian Lewis. Lewis was written off...

A Three Step Process for New Year Resolutions

by Damian Hamill 12:35 - 30th December 2011

So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.

Applying Systems Thinking to the Christmas Season, part 2

by Damian Hamill 13:00 - 23rd December 2011

I talked earlier about a number of categories of ‘rules’ that evolve to govern the self-organising systems that constitute families. Let’s look further at those categories.

Austin Powers, Meta-programs and NLP for Sales!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 22nd December 2011

In the Austin Powers movie, The Spy who Shagged Me, there is an amusing scene in which one of Dr Evil’s henchmen, Mustafa, is questioned by Powers and his CIA assistant Felicity Shagwell. Mustafa initially contemptuously refuses to answer the questions, but when asked the same question...

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