Hardwired Humans is a management consulting firm that designs people strategies based on human instincts.
Most senior executives and human resource professionals find common obstacles to high-performance within their organisations.
Do these frustrations sound familiar?!
- “Our organisation is comprised of silos that compete for turf”
- “Our executive team does not collaborate enough”
- “It’s tough to manage change so that people support a new idea or technology”
- “Staff complain about the lack of communication, and rely on the grapevine for the latest information”
- “Our performance appraisal system is not effective”
- “We don’t have enough capable leaders at every level”
If most organisations struggle with the same obstacles, then the explanation for those obstacles, and the solutions, must be found outside the organisation. The reason these obstacles exist is due to our hardwired instincts as human beings.
For an example Hardwired Humans Newsletter on Gut Feelings, click here.
 Andrew O'Keeffe and Dr Jane Goodall after speaking at a business luncheon During October, Andrew O’Keeffe toured with Dr Jane Goodall speaking at the AGSM Executive Programs business luncheons around Australia and New Zealand. Dr Goodall spoke about the leadership styles of the various alpha males from her early days studying the chimpanzees of Gombe in Tanzania. She also appealed to the audience to care for our planet as it is the “only one we have”. Andrew linked chimpanzees and human instincts to leadership of organisations, and how life in organisations is harder than it needs to be because we generally ignore human instincts. If we understand instincts we can make intelligent leadership choices. All profits from the lunches was donated to the Jane Goodall Institute of Australia www.janegoodall.org.au. Andrew O’Keeffe and The Boss on NBC’s Morning Blend, Milwaukee
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The Boss – the novel and guide
The Boss was honoured as a finalist in the Best New Fiction category of USA Book News “National Best Books 2009 Awards” Hi, The Boss is a novel based on true stories about bosses. I chose to write a leadership book as a novel because the subject is emotional. People are not neutral on the subject of their boss! When you ask people about their boss, people are instantly positive or negative and readily express their feelings. Only a novel can communicate those emotions. Because the events in the book are true, readers strongly associate with the story and the characters. They often ask how I knew their organization. You are very welcome to contact me when you have read The Boss. If you do get in touch, I’m very interested to hear what event in the book struck you as the most memorable and I will let you know if that was the event, when told to me in real life, provided the inspirational moment when I decided, I’m going to write a book! Enjoy! Regards Andrew |
