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September 14th, 2017

3 versions of speed

Andrew Grove, ex Intel This business about speed has its limits. Brains don’s speed up.  The exchange of ideas does […]

September 13th, 2017

‘Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig’

Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988), American science fiction writer, was famous for his quotes. This is one.  Many uses and interpretations […]

September 12th, 2017

The three ‘magic’ words: transparency, clarity and fairness

These three organizational ‘magic words’ manage to get mixed up a lot. It’s hard to believe because they are so […]

September 11th, 2017

Make your trade off(s) transparent

In my experience, people can understand budget cuts, but there are several types of acceptance, leading to several levels of […]

September 10th, 2017

End of Week Summary

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

September 9th, 2017

To learn how to create a culture of customer focus, use one

Disclaimer: I don’t have shares in the company, or discounts, or commissions! No place I know can match Chateauform  (http://chateauform.com) […]

September 8th, 2017

I can prove anything in management thinking. Watch me!

I can’t remember where I saw this. This is part of the point. It could have been anywhere. But I […]

September 7th, 2017

Never sell your time

A friend of mind, a great artist, posted his latest challenge in Facebook.  He had presented a product idea to his […]

September 6th, 2017

When necessary use words

Saint Francis of Assisi is a 13th Century figure revered as a Saint by the Catholic Church, and who founded […]

September 5th, 2017

Stop press: Candidate interviewed by authentic people

A recent senior hire in a client company commented to me that the thing that most impressed her in the […]

September 4th, 2017

Empowerment: the muddle. The wrong conversation, until you start unpacking the concept and dismantling the house of buzzwords.

The ‘expectations muddle’ of empowerment has different shapes and flavours: I expect you to do something but you don’t think […]

September 3rd, 2017

End of Week Summary

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

September 2nd, 2017

‘We have a communication problem’ is not always a good start.

‘Lack of communication’ or  ‘a communication problem’, is perhaps number one declared culprit in most of our troubled organizational life. […]

September 2nd, 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 […]

September 1st, 2017

In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire

Our faith in communication is enormous. Why? Perhaps because we know well the problems associated with the lack of communication. […]

August 31st, 2017

‘Nothing new under the sun’ ? Take off your sun glasses and stop the Valium

Often you see people in organizations disillusioned with changes, considering themselves survivors of  yet another reorg, getting on with the […]

August 30th, 2017

‘The Dunbar Number’ and ‘Mad Lean Numbers’: a question of the right critical mass of people to make things happen.

Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and psychologist, Oxford professor, has formulated that 150 was the “cognitive limit to the number of […]

August 30th, 2017

If you want to increase employee engagement and employee satisfaction, increase your company performance (yes, the order is not a typo)

With the holidays coming to a close and everyone returning to ‘work mode’, here is a recent post on employee […]

August 27th, 2017

End of week Summary – some thoughts on behavioural change & culture

Happy Long Weekend to all our Readers This week we have decided to look at behaviour and culture, first with […]

August 26th, 2017

There must be a better way (I have good news)

There must be a better way than having 200 consultants landing in my company and doing the stuff for me, […]