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August 25th, 2017

Innovation? Great, but I am not in charge of it!

Years ago I was talking to a client, a Senior VP in the company, about a project that had to […]

August 23rd, 2017

We need the aliens. Everybody needs aliens. Smart aliens who can ask questions and open Pandora boxes for us.

The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person […]

August 22nd, 2017

‘Jeff Bezos assures Amazon Employees that HR is working 100 Hours a week to address their complaints’ (that they are working 100 hours a week)

Whatever he had in mind, it was communicated in an incredibly poor way. The prize for messaging goes to Amazon […]

August 21st, 2017

If you needed to remember only one classification of people: ‘external and internal locus of control’

This is old Psychology lesson. ‘External locus of control’ translation: the problem is somewhere else, not me. It’s the environment, […]

August 18th, 2017

A behavioural epidemic can’t be fought from within. It needs a behavioural counter-epidemic to take over

I have explored this theme before in my Daily Thoughts, but I feel compelled to go back! Behavioural issues, whether […]

August 17th, 2017

“There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets”

What type are you? How our mental models work is part of the Minimal Introspection, something we tend to overlook, […]

August 16th, 2017

Iconic leadership: the illusion of copying a one off

Whilst the holidays roll on, here is a continuation of the leadership theme to consider before the summer is over  […]

August 14th, 2017

The 3 Grand Ds (‘Direction, Discovery and Destiny’), have also their 3 little personal and powerful ‘d’ sisters.

Good Morning! The following article extends on our recent series on leadership this week, which we hope you enjoy In […]

August 11th, 2017

The best question is the one which has no answer

Good Morning!  Here is the last of our series of three on Leadership this week. Recently, I keep finding myself […]

August 10th, 2017

It takes only one question to know about your model of leadership (and there is always an alternative question, just in case)

Morning to you.  Here is our second post in a series of three on Leadership: Don’t define leadership for me. […]

August 9th, 2017

My contradictions are my friends, and they come with me as leader

We are revisiting leadership this week.  This is one of a series of 3.   We praise people because of […]

July 28th, 2017

Reinventing management is reinventing the skill set. It’s urgent, and the answers are elsewhere, not in traditional management practices.

Reinventing management to deal with the complexities of the world and, therefore, the complexities of business challenges is something that, […]

July 9th, 2017

End of Week Summary: Behavioural Change

Happy weekend to our readers!   Behavioural Change is pivotal to all of our work at The Chalfont Project and as […]

July 2nd, 2017

End of Week Summary: 3 Favourites

Happy weekend to all Daily Thoughts readers! Unbelievably we have have reached the end of another month, so it’s time […]

June 25th, 2017

End of Week Summary: some thoughts on culture

Happy weekend to all Daily Thoughts Readers, and apologies for the lack of summary last week! This week we have […]

June 3rd, 2017

End of week Summary: 3 Favourites

Happy weekend everyone! This is the Daily Thoughts support team calling! As we start another month, we take this opportunity […]

May 18th, 2017

Weekly Summary: Organization Architecture

Welcome to this week’s summary (a bit earlier than usual!)   Here at Daily Thoughts HQ and The Chalfont Project, […]

May 13th, 2017

End of Week Summary: Peer-to-peer influence

Happy weekend to all our Daily Thoughts readers! This week, some of The Chalfont Project team have been at a […]

May 7th, 2017

End of Week Summary: Social Movements

Happy weekend to our readers!   Here at Daily Thoughts HQ, social movements are one of our favourite topics…so although […]

April 30th, 2017

End of Week Summary: 3 Favourites!

Happy weekend Daily Thoughts Readers!   As we reach the end of another month, it seemed a good time to […]