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Moses’ leadership was bad. He promised his people a land of milk and honey. Instead, they got a terrible hike […]
Many people, many of them in high managerial positions, succeed by avoiding failure. They become unmemorable by design. A new […]
One of the biggest compliments I’ve received in my consulting life, and one that I have come to appreciate more […]
It’s called the Shirky principle, after Clay Shirky, prolific American author of bestsellers such as ‘Here comes everybody’(2008) and ‘Cognitive […]
The war on talent. McKinsey consultants started it with a book of the same title. By focusing on what seemed […]
A specialist nephrologist I know well says to me: I get very nervous with all this heart stuff, I don’t […]
Management Theory (if there is one) and management practice are not physics. We don’t have very solid data about what […]
There was this big conference that was introduced by the chairman in this way: ‘Welcome everybody. Lovely to have you […]
A few years ago, the BBC broadcast a series called ‘How we built Britain’, presented by the veteran David Dimbleby. […]
‘Prioritize’ is a word that I particularly dislike because it is overused and misused in a terrible way. I have […]
No system can be fully understood within the system. No, this is not an esoteric statement but a simple, common […]
A neighbourhood with broken windows and graffiti on the walls says: look how easy it is to break a window […]
I know of a brilliant medical doctor who, in front of a worried patient, perhaps with some imaginary worries, perhaps […]
In a study conducted with Fortune 100 companies, and quoted in Sherry Turkle’s book ‘Reclaiming Conversations’, the following statistics about […]
That was Nietzsche on change management! It goes to the core of the issue of how we all try to […]
Here we go. I’m sounding a little gloomy for a Monday morning. I don’t mean to. Promise. Back in 2016 […]
It is unrealistic to expect upside down disruptive innovation in any business. But the absence of disruptive thinking may be […]
Jerry B Harvey’s 1974 article “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement’, contains this vignette. On a hot afternoon visiting […]
With some exceptions, there is no such a thing as single, global, monolithic corporate culture. There is usually a confederation […]
1. Postpone. Some great killers postpone everything. They don’t even have to use the language, they simply organise things in […]
