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December 4th, 2017

The absurd and the alien as sources of serious enlightenment

In the old days of medical school and psychiatric training we used to say that schizophrenia was a secret society […]

December 1st, 2017

10 shifts in the Remarkable Organization in the making ( and Santa wishes ideas)

In preparation for Santa, I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in the organizational life: a 10 point […]

November 30th, 2017

Warning: your people operating system is no longer supported. Upgrade!

Some organizations want agility, entrepreneurship, great innovation and superb customer centrism. But they are operating with structures, processes and behaviours […]

November 29th, 2017

A type of project team member called ‘The Visitor’

The Visitor is a full time member of a project team. He arrives late, very late. Smiles a lot. Takes […]

November 28th, 2017

Bezos did not tell us anything about the size of the pizzas.

So some organizations cook very, very large ones. No, this is not a gastronomic blog. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, said […]

November 27th, 2017

Try to have no work-life balance. The more you lose the balance, the more you’ll enjoy it.

This is of course not something every mortal is privileged to do: to make ‘work’ an exciting, fulfilling and meaningful […]

November 23rd, 2017

A refresh of Viral Change in a 30 minutes video.

I have recorded this for an HR and Communications conference that I could not attend. This is a good recent […]

November 22nd, 2017

Santa is too big for our chimney

There is a moment in the life of our kids in which they start questioning the story of Santa coming […]

November 21st, 2017

Project management is a state of mind. Big Picture people must have it as well.

Project management is a state of mind, not a software. But if you have both, it helps. Some people have […]

November 20th, 2017

Slow Change, Fast change. Mobilizing people: the alternative view ( 1 of 3)

Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look […]

November 17th, 2017

‘They changed, they did well, because they were ready for it’.

This piece of conventional wisdom is almost never true. That ‘they were ready’ is very often the a posterity rationalization. […]

November 16th, 2017

A mobilizing platform is the human operating system of the company. You need to install your HOS

I said yesterday that large scale mobilization of people (AKA social movements, AKA company culture) needs a platform. They don’t […]

November 15th, 2017

Large scale mobilization of people needs a small scale set of orchestrators. It works in society and it works in organizations

I wish I could remember where I did read these stats.  Russia under the Tsar 1914-1917…had 180 million peasants and […]

November 14th, 2017

15 things to look for in a culture

In the last weeks, for a number of reasons, I have had lots of conversations about ‘corporate culture’ and in […]

November 13th, 2017

Spreading the word and unleashing a movement. Guest blogger

Spreading the word and unleashing a movement Guest blogger: Kahlil Coyle. Social Movement Leader; Values in Action Core Team, Health […]

November 10th, 2017

Leave your sandals at the door

This is the request we made at the beginning of a Viral Change™ programme. Forget your function and your hierarchical […]

November 9th, 2017

Get on the phone. It’s personal.

In the era of digital semi anonymity, personal contact wins. In the era of corporate email broadcasting, personal contact wins. […]

November 8th, 2017

‘Design thinking is bullshit’

I did not say that. Natasha Jen did. She is a designer who has given some provocative presentations under this […]

November 7th, 2017

Teamocracies are tired, networkracies win the day.

For as long as anybody can remember in management history, the team has been highlighted as the unquestionable form of […]

November 6th, 2017

And they all gave one day of their holidays.

A true story. A health care worker is truly struggling to do her work and caring for a son who […]