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Wisdom Nomads go form meeting to meeting. ‘We need to make sure that’, ‘we have to know how this fits […]
Behavioural change is still presented in many quarters with the same language as installing a piece of software. Or maybe […]
Most of our organizational problems are behavioural Structural answers hardly solve behavioural problems. Amalgamating A and B because A and […]
I was used to the concept of catastrophic failure, but not catastrophic success, until I read an article in the […]
Hello from The Chalfont Project Daily Thoughts is in pause mode until the New Year. You can still browse and […]
Some organizations seem to have a love affair with problems. They love their disruptive and furtive nature. Secret encounters in […]
I could not sleep, it was almost unbearable. Then I woke up and the weather was horrible. The traffic was […]
Culture is the difference between 30 people making a decision in 30 days, and 3 people making the same […]
The author Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a most interesting book about the Lincoln presidency: ‘Team of Rivals’. It says it […]
If you want to learn from biographies of leaders, from their inspirations, about their traits, maybe tricks, read about Lincoln, […]
I owe this phrase to John Kerry whom I had the privilege of seeing on his London tour promoting his […]
I trust you because I can say ‘I haven’t got a clue’ and you don’t think I am an idiot […]
I am back to one of my favourites: measuring value. One of my oldest Daily Thoughts told this story. A […]
It’s a typical saying in US politics and I suspect in many other places. It’s a powerful thought. Every day […]
Allow yourself to be a bit inefficient Reinvent some wheels from time to time Don’t always reuse the same presentation […]
Deprogramming is a form of management detox. We navigate and work in organizations with a great deal of automatic pilot […]
The cult of Employee Satisfaction surveys is fading. Companies are doing less or less frequent. Perhaps there is some tiredness. […]
If one thing has become clear after all these decades of management soul-searching for more or less universal truths, this […]
Says Barbara Webb, professor of Biorobotics, who tries to simulate living organisms behaviours and extrapolate form here. It sounds like […]
Your son’s teacher says: your son John does not hand in the homework on time, quality is poor, we don’t […]
