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Colin D. Ellis

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'Colin is one of the world's foremost authorities on workplace culture.'

Colin D Ellis is a global workplace culture expert sought after by organisations around the world to help them build vibrant, high-performance cultures.

He acutely recognizes trends in working culture early to help others understand how to apply these in the work that they do - regardless of industry or country. Colin's approach is to provide his clients with the knowledge and skills that they need in order to be able to build and evolve vibrant cultures for themselves.

He has worked with almost 100 different cultures in almost 20 countries. His clients organisations such as Red Bull, Microsoft, Cisco, the US House of Representatives, Dutch Olympic Team, IAG Insurance, Am
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Pseudo productivity

Some cultures are great at putting on a productivity show. That is, filling hours and days full of activity that adds no meaningful value to either what the organisation is trying to achieve or the sense of purpose of the person doing it.

Pseudo-productive organisations are great at saying one thing, then doing little to nothing to actually get it done! Here are ten examples of pseudo-productivity:

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