Piers Campbell

Using employee engagement to build capability and make organisations better

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

🔸X doesn't go too well because it was an anecdotal idea of how things work inefficiently, not an actual idea or plan

🔸Everyone seeks to distance themselves from being accountable for X

🔸Decision making has an even higher risk profile

🔸NO ONE WANTS TO MAKE A DECISION

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Looking through my notes on what happens when people evade accountability, and found this concept.

It's an anti-pattern called The Decision Vacuum, and it happens like this:

🔸 No one wants to make a decision

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

🔸Someone disaffected says "We'll probably just end up doing X"

🔸Someone else then says "I hear we're going to do X"

🔸The idea of X is socialised

🔸People hear about and discuss X in meetings, and start planning for it

🔸X then actually happens

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

I just joined Substack Notes
https://t.co/w7qX4YlxSl

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Haven't posted on here in months so I suspect this might not be a priority for the algorithm, but I'm looking forward to giving this talk at the upcoming Digital Leaders Week.

https://t.co/GLIsNcaHB1

[Andy Tabberer @AndyTabberer]

Next time you or your team are asked to produce a report ➡️

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

@tom_geraghty Getting people to look at their role in the context of their whole life, and specifically their career aspirations. The best managers I've worked with have been very good at linking the present with the past and future.

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

The output of a good plan is a structure that allows us to respond to change, while still orienting to our purpose.

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Saw the Bill Lynch exhibition at @brighton_cca today, absolutely extraordinary. Well worth your time if you're in Brighton, and well worth the journey if you're not.

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Trust in a team is an activity, not an observable state. It needs to be intentionally built, nurtured and maintained.
Being trustworthy is about the character of an individual.
Having trust is the benefit gained from hard work.

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

A single tweet is estimated to have a footprint of 0.2g CO2e. Hmmm. #tweet100

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Have bought some new dishwasher tablets, and so have developed a seething resentment for the remaining old dishwasher tablets that is beginning to tip into hatred.

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Two year old daughter singing a song of her own composition about not liking frogs or towels. Good to have your position on those two things nailed down from an early age I suppose

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

In my experience, there are two characteristics to a successful retrospective:

1. The team learns something new about themselves
2. The team did not expect to learn that thing.

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Something strangely relaxing about this

https://t.co/y98nYzq3Vk

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[How Things Are Manufactured @fastworkers6]

How cookie cutters are made

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Cannot stop listening to this absolute banger.

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

So, landfill content. We could live without it.

[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

What I've learned about leadership from watching two episodes of MasterChef Australia tonight - a short thread ⬇️

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[Piers Campbell @APiersCampbell]

Earlier on LinkedIn, someone posted "You probably think there's no similarity between Buddhism and SEO" and I thought "That's true, there is no similarity and it would demean us all if you tried to draw one." But try he did.