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March 30th, 2016

Innovation: still the Holy Grail of management.

‘Daily Thoughts’ is in pause mode for a few days.. You may have missed some of these. Here is a […]
March 29th, 2016

Speaking up: an old friend always to be invited.

‘Daily Thoughts’ is in pause mode for a few days. Here is a quick way to continue some thinking during […]
March 28th, 2016

‘We, as a team’, may actually not need a team.

As some of us punctuate this time of the year (Happy Easter!) it is also a time for the Daily […]
March 27th, 2016

‘The conference”: Tribes talking to themselves

Who goes to HR conferences? HR people. Who goes to Communication conferences? Communication Directors, Managers and Heads. Who goes to […]
March 26th, 2016

Don’t go to Abilene. Nobody wants to.

Jerry B Harvey’s 1974 article “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement’, contains this vignette. On a hot afternoon visiting […]
March 25th, 2016

Organizations don’t learn. People do. Sometimes too much. So where does company memory come in?

The modern organization is fluid. People are not necessarily assigned to one place, one team, even one single role. The […]
March 24th, 2016

The collective as a bad sum. When collaboration becomes co-recreation and the sum is smaller than the parts.

In my dealing with organizations of many sizes and shapes, cultures and geographies, I always find very fine individuals of […]
March 23rd, 2016

Organizational thrillers, little apocalypses and skies not quite falling: another random day at the office

We have a phenomenal challenge in France. Our people there ‘don’t get the values’, are very cynical and, to make […]
March 22nd, 2016

We are all Generation S (screenagers) climbing up the singularity curve.

There is an anecdote in a recent piece by Noemi Klein’s in The Guardian. A young girl had some kind […]
March 21st, 2016

No more teams, please, we need to team-up.

The prestigious publication ‘The Economist’ has published an article under the title ‘Team spirit. Businesses are embracing the idea of […]
March 20th, 2016

The leader as a blank screen, on which others project.

In his 2003 book ‘The Audacity of Hope’, Barack Obama wrote: ‘I serve as a blank screen on which people […]
March 19th, 2016

Recruited by an algorithm, unheard in a crowed market, competing for attention: know the rules and your stats.

‘Recruiters spend 6 seconds evaluating individual online resumes/CVs’ That’s it. Six. The self-reporting by recruiters indicated 4-5 minutes, but using […]
March 18th, 2016

Mindfulness, the new solution. Oh, sorry, I forgot, what’s the problem?

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, software millionaire, has discovered mindfulness. And has installed ‘mindfulness rooms’ in the Salesfore building in […]
March 17th, 2016

Trends, predictions and hunches, in the art of avoiding more mistakes than others.

We often tend to mistake these in organizations Trends: See, hear and feel what is going on, and find patterns […]
March 16th, 2016

An amazing new tool for the new business environment revealed.

Experiment. Not kidding. Once upon a time ‘experimenting’ was something that only scientists did. Most people would associate the word […]
March 15th, 2016

And the frog said, next time buy yourself a thermometer

The old tale of ‘Boiling Frogs’ says that there are too basic ways to boil a frog. One, the frog […]
March 14th, 2016

‘The truth will set you’ free, and speaking up will always win

The Biblical ‘the truth will set you free’ should be engraved in corporate walls, next to the values. And in […]
March 12th, 2016

At some threshold, ‘improvements’ become dangerous

‘Continuous improvement’ is part of the management furniture and something that, at a face value, one could not disagree with. […]
March 11th, 2016

Top leadership needs to role model, lead by example and live the values. Now that we have said it, can we please stop talking about it?

Yes to all. All of the above. Who could disagree? Certainly not the leadership development sub-industry. We want the good […]
March 10th, 2016

The #hellomynameis campaign deserves all attention and support

I have had today the privilege of meeting Dr Kate Granger, founder of the #hellomynameis campaign, and a terminally ill […]