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July 13th, 2020

15 random organizational irritations and inconvenient truths

Bottom up is not more (of the same) workshops but at the bottom of the organization. Changing the geography of […]
July 11th, 2020

I dread ‘robust’ and ‘sustainable’ cultures

Culture is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it can host the most beautiful and sophisticated developments, enhance people’s life, […]
July 10th, 2020

10 shifts in the Remarkable Organization in the making (wishful ideas)

I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in organizational life: a 10 point manifesto, the Remarkable Organization Manifesto […]
July 9th, 2020

The collective as a bad sum. When collaboration becomes co-recreation and the sum is smaller than the parts.

In my dealings with organizations of many sizes and shapes, cultures and geographies, I always find very fine individuals of […]
July 8th, 2020

Behaviours are the syntax of the organization. Values are the grammar. Your space in the world is the story.

Your linguistic and behavioural frame must be in sync. Story, values and behaviours need to be solid and well connected. […]
July 7th, 2020

From ‘us and them’ to ‘us with them’. Don’t kill the ‘us’ on behalf of a fictitious ‘global’.

I sometimes think that many global ‘one company’ initiatives are missing the point. The intentions are good: ‘look, we are […]
July 6th, 2020

Mondays shape Tuesdays. If you could just fast forward…

Winston Churchill said, referring to the Houses of Parliament in the UK, ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’. […]
July 4th, 2020

My top 5 Leadership questions at the top of the agenda

Here are my top five from my organizational consulting work. The paraphrasing is mine, the ownership is shared with my […]
July 3rd, 2020

The organization’s collective self belief is often hidden. Leaders need to hear the unsaid.

Some organizations, or groups inside the organization, suffer from lack of self belief. You could say weak self esteem. The […]
July 2nd, 2020

Backstage Leadership™ is key to collective leadership, a cornerstone of the modern organization

I believe that one of the fundamental types of leadership in this Century is Backstage Leadership™. This is the art […]
July 1st, 2020

Peer-to-peer is stronger than managerial top down.

Peer power: if managers say, ‘safety is first’, the impact may be relative. The dictation is totally expected. This is […]
June 30th, 2020

The organizational structure vs what is really going on. Or the loneliness of an organizational chart.

The snap shot of the company as pictured in an organizational chart, is probably one of the most fictitious works […]
June 29th, 2020

10 reasons why leaders need to focus on the (unmanaging of the) informal organization

Our traditional management education has almost 100% focused on the formal organization, the structural fabric of teams, divisions, groups, committees […]
June 27th, 2020

Teamocracies and Networkracies have different citizens: inhabitants in teamwork, riders in network.

The old view of the organization is something close to the old concept of a medieval city, where citizenship was […]
June 26th, 2020

The obvious but overlooked fact that connectivity and collaboration are not always good.

Increasing the connectivity of people, who will benefit from enhanced collaboration, to achieve good things better, faster, differently, is a […]
June 24th, 2020

Individualism and collaboration are contagious. This is not news, but some experiments may explain how

In an experiment by Nicholas Christakis‘ team they tested the power of Artificial intelligence (AI) led bots (read pieces of […]
June 23rd, 2020

Why have we sterilized management? 

We have made character, virtue or goodness uncomfortable terms in the organization. They seem to provoke some sort of red […]
June 22nd, 2020

An audience is not a community. A community is not a team

Audiences receive messages, whether at your Town Hall meeting or your keynote speech. Communities use what they have ‘in common’ […]
June 20th, 2020

‘I told them once; they didn’t understand. I told them twice; they didn’t understand. I told them three times … and I understood’

I don’t know where this quote comes from, but I have always seen it as a source of reflection on […]
June 19th, 2020

Scientism is taking over management, so garbage gets measured and saved in pie charts.

Scientism is taking over management, so anything that can be expressed in scores and numbers is glorified regardless of the […]