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May 12th, 2016

Inefficiencies, frustrations and unhappiness? Is the right path to growth, congratulations.

A good article came to me via my colleague Caroline, always ready to save some gems from my spam filter […]
May 11th, 2016

Management upside down: global is local, leadership goes grassroots, top is at the bottom, and traditional management needs a retirement party.

It is perhaps the Age of Inversion. The weights have gone the other way. Globalization, big G, or small g, […]
May 10th, 2016

Can we agree on these rules? Since life is short, I thought I would suggest some etiquette for our collaboration.

Don’t leave around a floating opinion, ended by ‘in my opinion’, not leading anywhere in particular. That is just use […]
May 9th, 2016

You can only change ‘the culture’ if you have ‘one’. Otherwise, the problem and the answer are both plural.

The main reason why many cultural change and transformation programmes in large organizations fail is because you can’t change ‘the […]
May 8th, 2016

What do you do with that guy who does not want change and/or is very negative?

Option 1: You try to convince him with rational and emotional explanations about the need for change and the importance […]
May 6th, 2016

Digital Transformation: the new clothes for the enterprise, and something fundamental is missing

An indepth analysis of the world of ‘Digital Transformation’ shows two things. One is that there is no such thing […]
May 5th, 2016

Most ‘I’m just doing my job’ people, are not doing their jobs

Every morning in my neighbourhood there is a small window of time when traffic becomes chaotic, slow, painful and frustrating. […]
May 4th, 2016

Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, after A’)

Culture is not a project, something to do on top of normal work, an extra, something to get your hands […]
May 3rd, 2016

The logic of speed yoga, and organizational clocks

Have you heard of speed yoga? Me neither. Although Mr Google points to some YouTube videos that in fact are […]
May 2nd, 2016

The focus on the annual Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey as the climax of organizational understanding is both absurd and lazy.

If you are in the consumer behaviour field (marketer, researcher, advertising expert, brand strategist) you will not work with just […]
May 1st, 2016

I want builders, not problem solvers, not flow-chart artists.

I also don’t want bystanders, people who give diagnosis but would not have a clue about treatment, people who dwell […]
April 30th, 2016

Produce as many bad ideas as you can. The statistics will be in your favour and a very good idea will come up.

Promise. There is more to gain from many bad, irrational, uncooked, unrealistic ideas popping up and rejecting them so that […]
April 29th, 2016

The new employees who never left their previous one

Have you noticed how many employees seem to be in ‘one employer behind time zone’? They never left the previous […]
April 28th, 2016

Rule #3: Systematic use of sweeping generalizations is reason for dismissal

OK, a bit harsh, but this is what I mean. Some people are very good at this. ‘We have a […]
April 27th, 2016

HBR says culture is not the culprit, and, by the way, you can’t fix it. Yes we can.

Harvard Business Review (HBR) never ceases to amaze me. Very often I feel that there is some sort of a […]
April 26th, 2016

‘Human’ and ‘leadership’ can go together by inviting our demons for dinner.

If leadership is a praxis, something that ‘I’ do (name and surname here, please), then, knowing a little bit about […]
April 25th, 2016

Leadership is an amoral praxis. How about this to start a conversation?

Any label that could be equally applied to Mother Theresa, Hitler, your CEO, Kim Jong-un, Mandela, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and […]
April 24th, 2016

Managerially educated, template rich, model expert. And now what? Ah! That hernia!

I have come to the conclusion that most executive education of any reputation and high fees, is based upon five […]
April 23rd, 2016

The Zeus strategy: de-aggregating the problem

Plato told us in his Symposium that humans were originally androgynous, not men or women. They became so powerful that […]
April 21st, 2016

Fixed ideas. From a guest blogger who knows.

‘In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their […]