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Sometimes restructuring is done with the intention of solving a collaboration problem. A people don’t talk to B people; if […]
One of us or one of them. Liberal or conservative. Top-down or bottom up. Progressive or retrograde. Robust or fragile. […]
Imagine you run a large organization confronted with a future-critical, one off, Big Strategic Decision. The consequences may be dramatic, […]
A strategy review and implementation meeting takes place months after a new strategy has been launched. All goes smooth until […]
You can’t inject happiness in the organization. You can’t put happiness capsules in the water supply. You can’t prescribe happiness, […]
Some cultures a very introspective. In a healthy way. Some are pathologically introspective and spend a lot of time dissecting […]
Yuval Noah Harari uses this term in his excellent Homo Deus book to describe the narrow view that we have […]
Something short of a miracle occurs in some lucky organizations where leaders spontaneously ‘jump in’ and take over a piece […]
Madeleine Albright, politician and diplomat; former and first female U.S. Secretary of State, said in her Commencement Speech at Scripps […]
We have a problem in Division A. Leaders are not doing their job. Leaders are not living the values. Some […]
If we needed a handy god in organizational life, somebody who could come to the rescue and have the final […]
Several articles in the British Guardian and Observer (Memo to the BBC: balance is not fairness when one side is […]
Listening to everybody’s opinions is an unquestionably healthy feature of open organizations, inclusive cultures and good leadership. But it requires […]
Following on from Monday’s Daily Thought on Employee Disengagement, in which I suggested four main sources: The video and the […]
I am more interested in employee disengagement than employee engagement. The journey of disenchantment intrigues me more, and interests me […]
The Robust Culture: the culture handles well internal faults and external stress. There may be internal gaps (skills, unfilled positions, […]
The art of dealing with incomplete and imperfect data: I want to put this into the water supply of some […]
Analogy stolen from the brilliant The Systems Bible (John Gall, 2003). We tend to look at problems from the angles […]
I wrote a couple of days ago that the traditional model of change ‘A to Z’ or ‘destination’ is in […]
I’ve written many times: passion is overrated. Of course I am pushing the envelop with this. Passion is the fuel. […]
