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If instead of a company, you had and led a community. If instead of employees you had internal social activists. […]
Let’s try this. Somebody who asks lots of questions becomes ‘a micro-manager’, which solves the problem of my questioning whether […]
There are many situations in organization and corporate life when either the collective or others with authority solve our decision […]
Most of what is very good comes from discarding the standard or the good itself. The best scripts I have […]
In the day when Tim Crook, Apple’s CEO, had to send a note to everybody in the company reminding them […]
“This isn’t a period, it’s a comma, in the continuing story that is America,” Obama said when leaving office. Well, […]
(Friday 20.01.17 AD, 45th President of the USA, Inauguration Day) Conscious that this only makes sense to the Anglo-Saxon tribes […]
Edelman Trust barometer is out again. Extraordinary piece of work. The highlights? Trust is at its lowest, everywhere. The media […]
A recent publication around the Mighty Davos meeting portrays the views of five expert academics on the topic of leadership […]
Over years of consulting, I have realised that the best leaders I know, never talk about their previous companies, what […]
We naturally retreat to comfort zones. If we didn’t, we would not survive, physically or psychologically. We live in Confirmation […]
Years ago, I persuaded a pharmaceutical client to make three bold moves in one: (1) To create a New Product […]
Obama’s farewell speech contains enough reflective materials, statements and arguments to spend hours of learning, no matter where you are […]
I’d like you to do this quick exercise: Part 1. Read this edited version of a summary in a 2008 […]
True thought leadership is not about conveying new ideas, showing directions for innovation and offloading the latest trends. There is […]
Business organizations have grown in a traditional alpha male model where emotions are weaknesses, irrationality is banned and ‘the human […]
‘People like me’ is a category on its own right in the Edelman Trust Barometer. Multiple sets of data point […]
Your linguistic and behavioural frame must be in sync. Story, values and behaviours need to be solid and well connected. […]
Organizations can have the flu. And it can become epidemic. The epidemic of consensus is one. The conversation often starts […]
Your big leadership choice for 2017 is between being the guardian of what has already happened, or the prophet of […]