What do human collaboration and an orchestra have in common?

Both need a tuning session before they can perform well.

Here are 7 questions we recommend asking to make the unsaid things discussable early, and give people a chance to harmonise before they perform.

The behaviours that show up in meetings make sense inside the game people have learned to play.

The Culture Gameboard helps you map the experiences, stories and rules of play that keep a behavioural pattern going, and then identify what leaders can do to redesign the game. 

Meeting agendas are one of the most mundane parts of organisational life.

But look closely enough, and they can tell you quite a lot about your culture.

We often treat agendas as the obvious fix for bad meetings. 

But the better question to reflect on is 'what kind of preparation would best serve the work and the people in this conversation?" 

Famous meeting practices from the likes of Amazon and Asana won’t automatically work for you, and copying them blindly may make things worse.

This article explains what to ask before borrowing ideas from other meeting contexts.