"Your focus determines your reality" is one of those quotes I find myself coming back to time and again. Whether it's managing attention, seeing things in context, prioritising, or interpreting experiences, focus shapes our attention, our actions and our attitudes. We are becoming increasingly aware that focus is essential to managing ourselves and our work in a complex world. The human brain receives 11 million bits of information per second from the environment but can ...

Whether we think about value at the organisational, team or individual level, value is at the heart of our performance, contribution and effectivenss every day. It's a key to sustained success. Indeed, it's a key to survival. But value is not just something to consider through the lens of business or organisational strategy. Value is not simply about price or function or savings or systems. Value is also an everyday activity, reflected in nearly everything we do. And, important...

Getting to collaboration is a process. There's no doubt that collaboration is a key to organisational and team success. No one is as smart as all of us, and we bring groups of talented people together because we know that harnessing talent is the most efficient and productive way to achieve our goals, adapt and grow. A McKinsey article noted that: "Nearly 80 percent of the senior executives surveyed in a 2005 study said that effective coordination across product, functional, ...

It's probably not surprising that one of the most high-value and important principles of productivty and performance is also one of the most challenging. Focus is the "open secret" to improving performance and productivity. But in the context of our information-overloaded, constant interruption and fractured attention working environments it's hard to maintain. Which is why it's important to .. focus on it. Over five years, the Gensler organisation surveyed 90,000 p...