Mike Drayton

When people hear stories like this, they usually assume there must be something dramatic behind it... ideology, money, espionage, or some grand cause. In reality, this one began with something familiar to all of us: a workplace squabble. In this clip, I tell the story of Joshua Schulte, a highly skilled CIA cyber warrior whose actions caused huge damage to his employer, one of the most secure organisations in the world; not because of politics or principle, but because of a badly handled...

We spend a lot of time in organisations talking about strategy, values, purpose, and performance, yet we spend remarkably little time talking about the feelings that make these things happen. In this clip, taken from a reading at the launch of The Emotional Life of Organisations, I use a simple analogy to show that theory isn’t quite the same as reality. You can read endlessly about farming, study different breeds of cows, and absorb all the theory you like, but nothing prepares you for the...

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