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December 3rd, 2019

Leadership’s Splendid Expeditions

“The history of mankind might be described by a cynic as a series of splendid expeditions towards the wrong goal […]

December 2nd, 2019

“You don’t have to attend every argument to which you are invited”

This quote is from an unknown author. He or she must have known a thing or two about the futility […]

November 30th, 2019

Collective Leadership: Two Acid Tests

I call Collective Leadership that state in the evolution of management teams or leadership teams when the power of the […]

November 29th, 2019

The death of the charismatic leadership has been grossly exaggerated

As Mark Twain said himself, ‘The death of the charismatic leader has been grossly exaggerated’. The problem is that ‘charisma’ […]

November 28th, 2019

Could the ‘global teenager’ teach us about ‘global leadership’?

Today, there are more similarities between a teenager in Shanghai and a teenager in Rome, or Singapore and Madrid, or […]

November 27th, 2019

Scale or not to scale? This is the Shakespearean culture question.

Behavioural /cultural shaping in organizations does not scale up by simply the leaders having the right mindset and motivation. A […]

November 26th, 2019

All inclusive or go where the energy is?

Many times in my consulting work, I find myself facing this dilemma. Do I involve many people on the client’s […]

November 25th, 2019

Management ‘post-hoc fallacies’, but damn good stories!

In Latin ‘Post hoc ergo propter hoc’. Free translation: B follows A, so A must be the cause of B. […]

November 23rd, 2019

Steal ideas, implant with caution, observe, tweak, observe again, never close your eyes.

Innovation and renewal requires your windows open to the world. Plenty of organizations out there are experimenting with models, far […]

November 22nd, 2019

What do these have in common? Designing organizations, aquariums and fish soup.

Commenting on the communist legacy, a soviet academic Oleg Bogomolov, who must have known a thing or two about things […]

November 21st, 2019

When the organization goes into permanent rehearsal mode, learns to rehearse, not to perform.

We spend more time on preparing for doing than in doing. That would be good if we were just talking […]

November 20th, 2019

HR competence systems need two things: a diet, and a dose of honesty

Medium and big organizations tend to use a competence system that segments people by grades and by degree of competence. […]

November 19th, 2019

I am in favour of consultants entering the temple of the Social Sciences provided they take off their shoes

I am paraphrasing British philosopher Simon Blackburn who said the same about scientists entering the temple of philosophy. There is […]

November 18th, 2019

The corrosion of logic: from ‘why-what-how’, to ‘how, what, maybe why’.

There was a time when the logic of things started with a ‘why’, followed with a ‘what’ and ended in […]

November 16th, 2019

The great ‘How to’ takeover

There is a period in child development when children start asking the question ’why?’. They usually seem unsatisfied with one […]

November 15th, 2019

‘To save everything, click here’, and its version inside the company

Clicktivism is the term used to describe the type of pseudo-activism that consists in clicking the ‘Like’ button (Facebook mainly) […]

November 14th, 2019

What is the point? Probably the best answer is when ‘there isn’t any’.

Back in June 2016, people could walk over floating piers on Lake Iseo (Italy), all covered with yellow material, one […]

November 13th, 2019

Dear Business Development candidate: tell me about the things you have developed in life

If you have a behaviour/value system and you want to recruit people in a way that this value system is […]

November 12th, 2019

The battle for the 3Ss : Synthesis, Sense, and Simplicity

Let me share with you my 3Ss, where I suggest you put your money: 1. Synthesis. My followers, readers, clients, […]

November 11th, 2019

The new units of Space and Time (and the latest up coming Disruptive Innovations)

New units: Certificate of existence = 280 characters (Twitter) Presentation of ideas, maximum attention span = 18 mins (TED) Digital […]