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1. pop trends impacting 2015
organisational behaviour
pop trends impacting 2015
organisational behaviour
pop trends impacting 2015
organisational behaviour

2. the selfie
2014 saw 3,366,329 retweets of Ellen’s selfie and 92 million
mentions of “selfie” on twitter. We are officially obsessed with
our own image. Organisations are getting “Internal Facebooks”
& “Personal Profiling” has become a standard skill.
How will you keep group bonds in an organisation
composed of increasingly individual people?

3. saturated reality
Grand Hotel Budapest, and most of the top ten films of 2014
invited us to a world brighter than our own. Movies have
always been an escape – the place they took us to last year
was like a photo-shopped version of our life. We upped the
saturation, whited out unnecessary details.
Saw what we want to see.
Should we make our workspaces feel this way?
Are the ugly little details at risk of getting done?

4. nostalgia
Taylor Swift told us we should shake, shake, shake our way back to
1989 when things were simpler – to a time without the social media
that made her so popular in 2014. Things are rough now, and we miss
the time when there were less uncertainties and more silly music.
How can you help employees to feel both secure and relevant?

5. building icons
The most notable architecture of 2014 has been freestanding
objets d’art. With little relation to their environment and a
focus on creating a singular remarkable idea – they asked us if
we too should have a singular good idea as well.
What is your organisation’s big idea?
What is the one thing you will be famous for?

6. The Jawbone UP3, FitBit and the
Apple Watch let people track
their every movement. How many
steps did you walk? How many
restless nights did you have?.
Tracking personal performance
has became easier, gamified,
independent and sharable.
How will you handle
performance appraisals and
annual reviews now?
performance stats

7. time in art
Walker’s sculpture in the old Domino Sugar refinery honoured
black workers and asked us questions of race, economics and
identity. Made of sugar, the piece melted down like an idea
slipping away, leaving us only with memories.
What conversation needs to happen in your organisation
to span paradoxes and make memories stick?

8. living in dystopia
2014 found more people in imaginary worlds than ever before. People
liked living in Mindcraft, being a Maze Runner or escaping the Hunger
Games – it allowed us to leave our unpleasant, boring reality to be in
alternate worlds.
Should you gamify your tedious work? Create a dystopian office?
Bring people back to reality? Or embrace multiple realities?

9. Architectural projects have been
full of natural wood in 2014.
Feng Shui says raw wood is the
symbol of potential. Rough cut wood
apparently is ideal for stimulating
peoples ideas, making us feel at
home and creating concepts for
the future.
Do your people need a wood place
in their workspace?
woody places

10. awesome ideas
The Lego Movie and it it’s theme song “Everything Is
Awesome When You Work In A Team” asked the
children of 2014 to think about the relationship
between idea-makers and Mr. Business.
How will you set free your idea-people while
ensuring the organisation can use their creativity?

11. easy media
Except for some self-help books, the majority
of 2014’s top selling books were versions of
popular films. Apparently we want easy media.
How are you making your messages
competitive, fast and easy to absorb?

12. guilt free
We need to be green and we want
others to know we are green. Being
guilty of not being green was not an
option in 2014. Instead, people chose
to drive a Tesla, use a Reusable
Market Bag or buy well-labelled
recycled products.
Public CSR is OK.
What green act can your team do?

13. get on with it
The “Happy” video phenomena launched by Pharrell Williams
captured people’s desire to tell the world that they still can be
happy despite the economic indicators.
The tune was the most downloaded song in 2014, and everyone
who was in a Happy Video shared it with a friend.
How will you tap your team’s enthusiasm, joy & willingness?

14. which question stimulates
an aspiration for 2015?