Month: December 2019

Avoiding ‘the fourth wall’ effect of open plan offices – optimising collaboration

By Elisabeth Goodman, 11th December 2019 People use ‘the fourth wall’ in open plan offices to create ‘public solitude’ The 18th -century French philosopher, Denis Diderot, came up with the concept of ‘the fourth wall’ for performers on a stage.  He guided them to “imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating …

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Purpose statements revisited: how they matter and how to make them work

By Elisabeth Goodman, 2nd December 2019 How purpose statements matter I’ve written before about the importance of purpose as a motivator for employees (see ‘Why clarity of purpose is so important for both effective leadership and management) Sally Blount and Paul Leinwand sum it up nicely in “Why are we here?” in the Nov-Dec 2019 …

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