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June 26th, 2017

Sharing thoughts, being carriers, and why there are no idiots anymore.

I have described before the role of managers in many ways, often pointing to the risk of becoming ‘information traffic […]
June 24th, 2017

Feed back loop management strategy is not strategic. Excuse my language.

Steve Richards’  ‘The Rise of the Outsiders: How  Mainstream Politics Lost Its Way’ (2017), has prompted me to reflect on […]
June 21st, 2017

There is something only you can do: be yourself. Everything else can be outsourced.

There is something only you can live: your life. Socrates said that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’. Being […]
June 20th, 2017

Mindfulness, the new solution. Oh, sorry, I forgot, what’s the problem?

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, a software millionaire, has discovered mindfulness. And has installed ‘mindfulness rooms’ in the Salesforce building […]
June 16th, 2017

Backstage Leadership™ is key to collective leadership, a cornerstone of the modern organisation

I believe that one of the fundamental types of leadership in this Century is Backstage Leadership™. This is the art […]
June 14th, 2017

An audience is not a community. A community is not a team

Below is a popular post from last year which we thought was worth revisiting – enjoy! Audiences receive messages, whether […]
June 12th, 2017

Organization Math Compilation.

Admin note: We would like to apologize for the disruption in the past few days on the regular posts by Dr. […]
June 7th, 2017

Organization maths (3 of 3). Matthew Effects, and a summary

In previous Daily Thoughts  (here and here) I wrote about some simple maths of the organization when understood as a […]
June 5th, 2017

There is a new world currency, with its traders and its own economy. And it’s not money.

It’s hard to write after yet another terrorist attack just a few miles from my keyboard, and not to make […]
June 2nd, 2017

Organization’s arithmetic continues Part 2 (of 3). Sorry to be a pain but, how many have the real power?

Yesterday Daily Thoughts started some Organization Mathematics for dummies. [Training is to addition what culture change is to multiplication] Believe […]
June 1st, 2017

Training is to addition what culture change is to multiplication. Organization’s arithmetic Part 1 (of 3)

So if you have a ‘culture change programme’ that is based on adding more and more people going through a […]
May 31st, 2017

A thousand and one blogs. Now I need you

Yes, I’ve reached that quota. They are all in the website and, incidentally, they are screaming for a new home […]
May 30th, 2017

Bullshit re-gaining academic recognition. Now, not a simple outburst but a formal topic of intellectual interest.

English not being my mother tongue, I always take the liberty of using terms that polite English people don’t use […]
May 26th, 2017

Confidence, vulnerability, trust: my kingdom for a good theory. In the meantime, I’ll see these when I see these.

Vulnerability is a luxury. The world may attack you, take advantage of you. You should measure the love of people […]
May 25th, 2017

Absurdity: the trade, and a couple of solutions

Many years ago I met somebody at a conference. He was one of the speakers. He told us a great […]
May 24th, 2017

Manchester, we cry. Calling all competent ex-terrorists

It’s just simply impossible to go business as usual after the Manchester events. Yet, the best thing we could do […]
May 22nd, 2017

The Disruption Religion misses the point: what will not change, and how we can capitalize on it. (2 of 2)

In the previous Daily Thought I shared the simple idea that change management approaches often miss a big elephant in […]
May 21st, 2017

Change management most important announcement: this will not change (1 of 2)

The change management industry has traditionally missed a big elephant in the room: in times of change, what is actually […]
May 19th, 2017

The glass-always-half-empty people never bother to fill it in

Entire organizations are kept alive and kicking by the glass-half-full-people whilst the glass-half-empty-people spend their time feeling sorry for themselves. […]
May 15th, 2017

Good leaders are a bit of corporate anthropologists, without the six months in Tanzania.

Good leaders are a bit of corporate anthropologists. In fact, we are all exotics in the payroll. In my idiosyncratic, […]