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January 3rd, 2017

Happy New Year! Good to see you again. Just checking in.

Back at 08:00 GMT, my alarm clock, with  ideas left behind with the community of readers, followers, clients, my global […]

December 14th, 2016

The leader is not an answerphone. Or a help desk.

In our Viral Change™ Programmes, members of the community (company) of activists, invariably ask questions such as, what shall we […]

December 12th, 2016

The curious case of management bad sync: the video and the audio don’t match

This is a pattern that I encounter with many of my clients. Top and less top leadership, of the progressive […]

December 10th, 2016

No revolutions here, we are corporate. Is corporate life shielded in the Era of the Unpredictable?

Here we go again. I keep sounding gloomy these days. I don’t mean to. Promise. The Era of Anger, the […]

December 9th, 2016

Management may be getting a free upgrade to leadership. It’s time to review these categories.

The current theory on the future of management, going around in some circles, (courtesy of Gary Hamel, somebody people pay […]

December 8th, 2016

‘The truth will set you free’, the Bible says. Using a Baloney Detection Kit will keep you sane.

It’s official. Well, it has been now for a little while. “Post-truth” has been named Oxford Dictionaries’ 2016 international word […]

December 7th, 2016

This time it’s personal, actually.

A fairly constant finding in political science experimentation (and this is a rich field completely neglected by traditional HR/OD in […]

December 6th, 2016

My soft stuff/test results: 3 Plus, 3 Minus, 3 Grr!

I have found myself in full philosophical mode, taking stock. End of year I suppose. This is like a blood […]

December 5th, 2016

Bonkers is the new black. New management ideas for the NHS are that kind of black.

According to The Telegraph, Mr Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary of Her Majesty’s British Government has declared that doctors and nurses […]

December 4th, 2016

Preach your values all the time, when necessary use words

This is plagiarism, of course. I am stealing 13th Century saint, Francis of Assisi’s  line: ‘Preach the Gospel all the […]

November 28th, 2016

The ‘quick win-win’ theory, and tactics, often lead to people being put off quickly

One of the most conventionally accepted theories of change, perhaps better called ‘tactics of change’, says that it is important […]

November 27th, 2016

‘If there are no nurses, I don’t want to be part of your revolution’

This is Rule number 13 of the just published, new book ‘Rules for Revolutionaries- how Big Organizing can change everything’, […]

November 26th, 2016

What about a little epidemic of generosity in our organizations?

From all human qualities and types of character, from all human values and personality traits, from so many character-istics of […]

November 25th, 2016

A tsunami of navel-gazing, force 11, is impacting business, society and politics. And individual identity.

I don’t like to sound gloomy. But, is the current self-centrism an epidemic of colossal proportions? Or, another way to […]

November 24th, 2016

Leadership scaffolding. Let’s try this mental model

Leadership can be taught, of course, but not in the same way as teaching how to drive a car or […]

November 23rd, 2016

Three Daily Thoughts for a quick catch up and reflection

Hi there! There is a pause in Daily Thoughts today, but here are three you may have missed that we […]

November 22nd, 2016

No more change please, we need change-ability.

‘Lasting capacity’ must be a keyword for change management and its methods. The issue today is less about how to […]

November 21st, 2016

Sustainable? Competitive advantage or disadvantage?

There was a time, not long ago, when people got fed up with ‘change programmes’ that faded at the speed […]

November 20th, 2016

Here is the good news: good values, translated into behaviours, are contagious.

How do you make values live? Install them in a culture? Model 1: You preach them and preach them, and […]

November 17th, 2016

Your mental frame, as defined by words, will dictate your actions. Even your values. Words are dictators.

The purpose of the organization is… The objectives of the strategy are… The reason why we have restructured is… From […]