Where it all started
The work began in 2001 when Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School became a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) and was awarded a government grant of the order of £900,000 to study performance and innovation in contemporary firms. She and her research team collected data from over 150 teams in Europe and the USA. Their work has been published in Harvard Business Review, The MIT Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. It has also been presented at the American Academy of Management. An overview of the research is contained in Lynda‚Äôs latest book Hot Spots - Why Some Teams, Workplaces and Organisations Buzz with Energy - and Others Don't.
In 2006 Lynda and her colleagues launched the Hot Spots Movement, which has since attracted over 2000 members from across the world.
We continue to do research, which we organise in research consortiums. Our latest consortium is the Future of Work Consortium at the Hot Spots Research Institute, where for the first time we are using an online community platform as the main means of communication between the Consortium members. This is generating many, absolutely fascinating discussions - click here.