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February 20th, 2018

The Tyranny of Metrics.

For the record, you can measure anything, the relevant, the irrelevant, the crucial and the distractions. Measuring is not a […]
February 19th, 2018

You can’t plan for unintended consequences, but you want as many good ones to emerge

What if your unintended consequences were as big as the intended ones? This happens in our Viral Change™  programmes all […]
February 16th, 2018

Note to procurement: no more tanks, we got the wrong war.

There was a time when ‘my tanks are bigger than yours’ was the so called competitive advantage. Bigger muscle, bigger […]
February 13th, 2018

Change management is dead. Let’s go and have a nice funeral

No offense to those with the title in the business card. No offense to the whole industry. You are well […]
February 12th, 2018

We have a sophisticated brain with a not very sophisticated copying machine inside

When researching for my 2011 book Homo Imitans, I was interested in the human ability to copy from our environment. […]
February 10th, 2018

Kids characters are shaped in the playground, not the classroom

And employee characters, and company culture, and all the unwritten rules of the organization are shaped in the cafeteria, the […]
February 9th, 2018

Your mind will trick you. Including when you move jobs.

When people join a company, coming from another one, they need to marry different worlds: The one of the company […]
February 8th, 2018

The burning platform was the greatest management invention. Now, can we move on?

Apparently nothing can change unless there is as ‘burning platform’. Business and old change management loves that kind of drama. […]
February 6th, 2018

Lazy managers love questionnaires

No offense to questionnaires. These are legitimate tools to know what is going on! People may argue that in a […]
February 5th, 2018

The tyranny of knowledge. Seeking unpredictable answers

The ‘tyranny of knowledge’ is one of these phrases used in a diversity of contexts. It means amongst other things […]
February 2nd, 2018

We live in a cultural Hiroshima

There is a point in time in which the brain starts filtering the images coming in, all the lines written, […]
February 1st, 2018

Back to the Daily Date.

It’s been a while. Having a gap in the writing daily date helps to gain perspective. I went through a […]
January 15th, 2018

Announcing: MOBILIZE! Masterclass; a blueprint for social movements

Happy New Year! Daily Thoughts will be back in flow on the 1st of February During this gap, I have […]
December 14th, 2017

And I’ll see you all back in the New Year!

It has been an intense year in many aspects. I am grateful to clients and friends, and above all my […]
December 13th, 2017

The conspiracy of the books in my library.

This is a straight quote from Nassim Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile) A private library is not an […]
December 12th, 2017

The Pancake Revolution in management missed some details

Flat organizations, part of the Pancake Revolution (got the patent pending) that we have gone through, trimming management layers and […]
December 11th, 2017

Amateurs borrow, professionals steal

The phrase is from John Lennon who stole it from TS Elliott (‘amateur poets borrow; mature poets steal’). There are […]
December 8th, 2017

Do visionary leaders nominate non-visionary successors?

Hardly a question I can answer with statistics, but I would tend to agree. This good article points in that […]
December 6th, 2017

If you have two guys who think the same, fire one of them

I must have heard this for the first time from Tom Peters many years ago. He was, and he is, […]
December 5th, 2017

What do a flipchart, a kid’s dinosaurs toy, and a simulation software have in common?

  Donald Winnicott (1896- 1971) was a brilliant British psychoanalyst. And you won’t find many instances of my praising psychoanalysis, […]