List

To search my website, please use the form below.

November 19th, 2017

End of Week Summary: Activism

Happy Weekend Daily Thoughts Subscribers! Here is a compilation of 3 of some our latest posts – all with the […]

November 12th, 2017

End of Week Summary

Welcome back Subscribers!   In case you are not aware, posting of Daily Thoughts resumed on Monday 6 November after […]

October 18th, 2017

Pause, recap, reflect: See you on November 6th

Dear Subscriber My team has been posting for a while, selected previously published Daily Thoughts.  Also retweeting some of them. […]

October 6th, 2017

The tyranny of the small things

Grandiose plans get sabotaged by small things. Many years ago, I was involved in what was going to be a […]

October 5th, 2017

My last Employee Engagement model. (7/7): Activists on the payroll.

In this model, the employee (1) is an activist, (2) largely working peer-to-peer, and (3) progressing towards (if not arriving […]

October 4th, 2017

Employee Engagement as morally imperative. (6/7) A forgotten model?

Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]

October 3rd, 2017

Employee Engagement Models continue (5/7): ‘The Investors metaphor’.

This is model 4 of the series.  The concept is simple. Imagine that you, as an employee, are in reality an […]

October 2nd, 2017

More on Employee Engagement (4/7): ‘The Cause’. Engagement with the company or within the company?

This is model 3 (but the 4th post, confusing!)  ‘The Cause’. Employees join forcers to work on a Cause: green agenda, corporate […]

October 1st, 2017

End of Week Summary

Happy Weekend to all our readers Today we are taking another look at activism and grass roots communications.  We hope […]

September 30th, 2017

Employee Engagement week ( and debunking) continues. (3/7): The Happy Cows model

This is model 2 in the pack of 6 that I have described. There is a book, or two, and it’s […]

September 29th, 2017

Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement (2/7): Giving employees a voice. So, now we have a choir. And then what?

Model 1 of my 6 is what I call, ‘Air time’. It translates into: ‘we recognise that employees’ views are not properly […]

September 28th, 2017

Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of Emperors with No Clothes. (1/7) The six models

A while ago I posted my views on Employee Engagement. Since this has become an industry in its own right, and […]

September 26th, 2017

Will the last employee in Command and Control Inc/Ltd/Plc/SA please turn off the lights? (But have a good lantern with you)

The new, emerging organizations, many people would agree, are more collaborative, more leadership-distributed, less top-down, with more levels of empowerment […]

September 22nd, 2017

The clouds move to follow me; the traffic lights go green when I move

These two statements represent a form of magical thinking of the kind seen in ancient humans (clouds) and todays humans […]

September 21st, 2017

Build your own Employee Engagement argument for free. You can’t go wrong

Here are three baskets full of concepts: Basket one: Working conditions, Flexibility at work, Pay and perks, Reward and recognition, […]

September 19th, 2017

This is a non-smoking flight

If you are a frequent flight traveller, as I am for business reasons, you will be familiar with the standard […]

September 18th, 2017

The Rolling Luggage Paradox

I owe this to Nassim Taleb (‘Fooled by Randomness’ (2007), ‘The Black Swan’ (2008), ‘Antifragile’ (2013). As a traveller of many years […]

September 17th, 2017

End of Week Summary

Happy Weekend to all our Readers This week we have decided to take another look at some posts that focus […]

September 16th, 2017

The last thing I need is creativity

Henry Ford is quoted to have said ‘why is it every time I ask for a pair of hands, they […]

September 15th, 2017

We are so good at crisis!

Many clients have expressed this thought over the years: ‘Leandro, we are so good at crisis!’ And indeed they were!  […]