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That is the trouble of many well-intentioned ‘crowd-sourced’ rounds of input in the form of focus groups or similar. We […]
“Priming’ is an old concept. It means you can influence events by exposing people to subtle messages, colours, perhaps emotions […]
My very good client BTG plc has created a habit of getting leadership teams together into racing boats for a […]
As I had spent the week, and to my own surprise, highly impacted by the Brexit results, I wrote a […]
Managing uncertainty is something our brain loves to do. And it loves even more to be helped. At macro-macro-level, Theories-Of-Everything […]
1. Postpone. Some great killers postpone everything. They don’t even have to use the language, they simply organise things in […]
For sixteen days in June, people could walk over floating peers on Lake Iseo (Italy) , all covered with yellow […]
I was once part of a team discussion in which one of the participants, Peter, managed to put the words […]
Reported in many places: The noise levels of some Intensive Care Units (ICU) in hospitals are similar to those of […]
It always amazes me how much of the real purpose of the organization is often unsaid, assumed, never proper articulated. […]
Corporate storytelling has been largely dominated by heroic stories, referring to extraordinary circumstances, handled by extraordinary people. They make for […]
Sustainability of change, of cultural initiatives, of well intentioned corporate improvements is the key challenge. We are all quite energetic […]
Heraclitus (535 BCE) was probably the father of change management. Two quotes: ‘There is nothing permanent except change’ ‘No man […]
These 8, self-explanatory categories of people are the natural focus of traditional HR and management systems . They are needed […]
Following on from yesterday’s proposition, the new disciplines of management, ‘The New Classics’ are these 10: 1. Behavioural Economics. 2. […]
Amongst the challenges that management in the 21st Century has, which are shared, of course, by specific functions such as […]
VUCA: volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous environment, term created by the military to say that the future is not what […]
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, ‘the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, […]
An undetermined glitch in the system made the distribution of this Daily Thought very limited to my community of email […]
You always have the trade-off between doing X, and not doing it at all. There will be a cost of […]
