Bromford Lab

Strategic Innovation at Bromford

[Jude Sherry @judesherry]

This couldn't be more wrong
People need outdoor spaces and want them where the sun faces
I used my south street facing balcony in Amsterdam more than I use my private north facing garden in Ireland
People watching is the added bonus as people rarely look up
#RestPlayWork

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

Marking one year of place-based working

"Improved customer satisfaction, faster repairs, and stronger community relationships"

https://t.co/PabqPQmKnj

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

Citizen-centric, place-based working seeks to reimagine public sector performance beyond a metric-obsessed culture

Read more 👉 https://t.co/UOKCgnJQwr

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

When we introduced our Neighbourhood Coaching model other organisations derided it as retrograde as we were swimming against the seemingly progressive agenda of ‘digital by default'.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/GvjWcDHbuS

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

The most effective way to innovate is to create conditions where the bureaucracy starts to thaw, and the system is updated to prevent it becoming refrozen.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/Olv5qzuPi0

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

It's one year since we launched the first test of a decentralised #agile #placebased team

In an exclusive free webinar this Friday August 22nd 12pm-12:45pm BST we'll check in on the progress. Can small empowered teams adopting #agile ways of working achieve things other can't?

Sign up via Zoom

https://t.co/yZRaJd9u17

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

One year of running an #agile #place based two pizza team (or maybe 3 or 4) . What have we learned? Free webinar Friday 22nd August 12pm - 12:45pm. Register here

https://t.co/3aL0dCmX0o

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

Why, when wise, experienced leaders make collective decisions, do they often make really bad decisions? In his new paper “A theory of collective stupidity in organisations - and possible remedies,” @geoffmulgan challenges conventional wisdom about leadership failure. He says that “collective stupidity” emerges not from incompetent individuals, but from behaviours that are rational & co-operative but resulting in destructive outcomes.
He identifies a key factor as “the tendency to conserve cognitive energy”. Intelligent thought is costly & requires energy & attention. So we save it by adopting narrow habitual thinking & routines. In addition, we are social animals who seek acceptance & approval from others. This causes us to align our thinking with the group, copy behaviours & conform—often at the expense of independent judgement. Excessive respect for overconfidence also plays a part. Lack of diversity in the group makes us even more prone to collective stupidity because there is more pressure to conform, reducing the chance of challenging flawed assumptions.
Remedies for collective stupidity:
1) Divide roles & tasks among different people or groups to encourage multiple perspectives & reduce the risk of groupthink.
2) Orchestrate triangulation & doubt to provide alternative perspectives; how would I know if this wasn’t true? What would someone else think?
3) Organise loops – looping back repeatedly to question, think, debate, challenge.
4) Slow down decision-making processes to allow time for reflection & critical thinking.
5) Expose people to a variety of viewpoints & help them understand how others think, countering the tendency to assume everyone shares the same perspective.
6) Seek to achieve a healthy balance of diversity and integration; a variety of views, backgrounds & cognitive styles AND a capacity to integrate with shared languages, frames & ways of thinking.
7) Listen to unwelcome information & unwelcome ideas, creating routines for honest reporting & for mavericks, dissenters & whistleblowers to have a voice.
https://t.co/kmKADRLZT5.
With thanks to Stella O'Brien for an accessible link.

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

Too often businesses have to distinguish between financial ROI and social ROI as competing rather than complementary, but business models that embrace the social return of community investment are best positioned the reap the rewards https://t.co/BlRXydpI1Y via @trikro

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

Next in our series of webinars looking at creating small agile teams focused around place.

Friday 13th June 12.00pm -12:45pm

Free to anyone who wants to change how we currently work

https://t.co/gV1KXobiTT

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

New Post: Do Institutions Decline Like Civilisations?
▸ https://t.co/mTstXqzfcX

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

Young Adults Joining ‘Offline Clubs’ Across Europe–to Replace Screen Time with Real Time

https://t.co/yVmqc8HoqZ

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

New global survey reveals surprising twists on what makes us flourish! Wealth isn't everything - meaning, character & relationships are key, especially in middle-income countries. Young people struggling in many places #Wellbeing

https://t.co/xtRi9cr8ds

[✨ Donna Hall ✨ @ProfDonnaHall]

How do cultures go from good to bad?

- stop listening to citizens & people who draw on services
- only recruit to senior roles internally (a closed shop)
- shut down skeptics
- value loyalty over thoughtfulness
- pander to egos rather than mission
- ignoring bad behaviours

[Richard Straub @rstraub46]

" 1/5 of working time is wasted in Germany by burerocracy." According to the CEO of @Henkel Carsten Knobel.

To change this radically is not just a necessity - It is absolutely vital for the future of the economy, the competitiveness and prosperity. It is time to act and the Global Peter Drucker Forum, will be the place for convening the best minds for understanding and shaping this process.

@MicheleZanini @profhamel @HelenBevan @guillaumealvare @GDruckerForum

https://t.co/9G4FdkEHk8

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

Book here for our next free webinar which will outline our next #placebasedworking experiment

https://t.co/N8ZtJzEWkx

[Paul Taylor @PaulIanTaylor]

"Place-based working cannot follow a one-size-fits-all model because places are all different. Therefore the management system that is around it has to completely alter to reflect that."

Book on our next webinar 14th February at the bottom of this post

https://t.co/UJev4rKVTD

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

Huge thanks again to everyone who attended our third place-based working webinar.

Just as promised, this webinar is now available to watch at any time over on our YouTube channel!

https://t.co/DLI4I8Mt44

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

🎙️ Let’s Talk Health 🎙️

In this episode we talk to Tapiwa Mtemachani FInstLM about his perspective on the link between health and housing. Listen to the full episode now, and share your thoughts!

https://t.co/tNJjXEr7gE

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

Still time to register for today's 12pm webinar on how to use #DataScience to shift to place based working. @PaulIanTaylor will introduce our panel and host a Q+A.
register here https://t.co/ciAnxWQj7D

[Bromford Lab @BromfordLab]

🎙️ Let’s Talk Community Conversations 🎙️

In this episode we talk to Rob Rowlands and Andy Wright about the value and challenges of having meaningful community conversations.

Listen to the full episode now, and share your thoughts!

https://t.co/tNJjXEqzr6