Andy Partridge

On Organisational Culture: Avoid Project Plateau & Make Ideas Happen

by Andy Partridge February 3, 2012
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Avoid project plateau with your team so that ideas follow through. This post explores strategic organisational culture with examples from Behance’s Scott Belsky

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Workplace Anxiety in Uncertain Times

by Andy Partridge January 12, 2012
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How is the economic climate affecting your workplace anxiety levels? Many people who are currently experiencing high levels of anxiety around job security have developed a lack of distinct trust in their leaders. This has an obvious impact on both their morale and productivity at work. I recently delivered a key note called ‘Personal Effectiveness

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Where Leadership Experts Get It Wrong

by Andy Partridge November 1, 2011
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Where Leadership Experts Get It Wrong Winning charisma, razor sharp intelligence and personality characteristics such as extraversion are the keys to great leaders, right? Forget it! The most recent research in psychology explodes this myth and reveals the real skills that great leaders possess. Beyond Sticks and Carrots Two decades of research into leadership has

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Zappos – Your Culture is Your Brand

by Andy Partridge August 9, 2011

Tony Hsieh is the founder and CEO of Zappos, the highly successful online retail company recently acquired by Amazon. His fast paced and down to earth book ‘Delivering Happiness’ shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success, and how by concentrating on the happiness of those around

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Introducing Dr Martyn Newman

by Andy Partridge July 18, 2011

Enviableworkplace are pleased to welcome Dr Martyn Newman on board as a fellow labmate. Martyn Newman is MD of RocheMartin and a consulting psychologist with an international reputation as an expert in emotional intelligence (EQ) and leadership. As well as holding senior academic positions at leading universities in Australia and Europe, he has many years

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Introducing Chip Conley

by Andy Partridge April 14, 2011

We’re pleased to welcome Chip Conley on board as a fellow labmate. I’ve been in touch with Chip since I first saw his enviable talk on Ted.com A pioneer and leader in the ‘New World of Work’ space he is the founder and executive chairman of Joie de Vivre, America’s second largest boutique hotel company consisting

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Built on Values – Creating an Enviable Culture

by Andy Partridge April 7, 2011

Too often I have seen values and mission statements written on the walls of companies looking like they’ve been lifted from a textbook in order to give the impression of a values based environment. Many leaders want to believe that all they need to do is proclaim a set of values and culture will magically

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Emotional Capitalists – The New Leaders

by Andy Partridge February 23, 2011

The number one characteristic today’s employees value in a manager is trustworthiness, a recent leadership has found. A survey reported this month through hrdaily.com.au, and involving more than 3000 leaders, managers and employees, has found that employee expectations have changed dramatically over the last year presenting managers with new challenges in meeting them. Being trustworthy

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Value-Added Selling

by Andy Partridge January 4, 2011

Tom Reilly’s book ‘Value-Added Selling’ is a great tool to help really establish yourself as an enviable salesperson. According to Tom’s research a 2000 US Department of Commerce study found that the stock market performance of companies that practiced business excellence beat the S & P 500 average return on investment by five to one.

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Is there a better way to work?

by Andy Partridge November 2, 2010
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Cali Ressler and Jody Thomson are the co-founders of CultureRx and the creators of ROWE – Results Only Work Environment. Their book ‘Why Work Sucks And How To Fix It’ set out to challenge the way we work and suggest that there is a better way to work. They start by telling us that 40

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