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December 18th, 2015

Management: The Evolution of the Species. 12 kind of people you need to find, seduce, hire and create a job for. (part 1 of 2)

Management evolution has overdone it in some species and is has become weak, even in survival mode in others,. Here […]
December 17th, 2015

10 reasons why leaders need to focus on the (un-managing of the) informal organization

Our traditional management education has almost 100% focused on the formal organization, the structural fabric of teams, divisions, groups, committees […]
December 16th, 2015

Volkswagen (VW) apparently ‘needs to change its mindset’. Has anybody ever seen a mindset?

The German car manufacturer has reported that ‘it has detected a mindset in some areas of the company that tolerated […]
December 15th, 2015

Collaborating across borders needs one thing: borders

There is a romantic view of the organization that sees it completely borderless, inside and outside. Inside, this view says, […]
December 14th, 2015

‘You can have any colour of leadership as long as it is white’. This is our “Ford translation’ in organizations.

Henry Ford said that you could have ‘any colours of a car as long as it’s black’. The colour to […]
December 13th, 2015

The formula about what to do when ‘leadership does not get it’, finally revealed.

There are always people who ‘don’t get it’, are against cultural change efforts, do not support a programme, torpedo it, […]
December 12th, 2015

3 Inconvenient truths about leadership and change

(1) If the top leadership of the company does not leave to expectations, and don’t exhibit the values/behaviours that you […]
December 11th, 2015

Empowerment is an output. Only if you can visualize it, you can craft it.

Employee empowerment is an output, an outcome. If you start thinking of employee empowerment as an input, something you are […]
December 10th, 2015

In praise of tension. Consensus as permanent state in the organization, is collective coma.

The trouble with consensus is that it contains all the risks of poor thinking and all the possible cognitive biases, […]
December 9th, 2015

My 10 unreasonable non-negotiable, circa 2016.

Since I spend a considerable amount of my client work time dealing with value systems and their much needed translation […]
December 8th, 2015

Employee Engagement time out! ‘The survey’ has no clothes. Back to thinking, could you believe it?

‘It has been proven that people with more birthdays live longer’. Is this is a line belonging to so called […]
December 7th, 2015

“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”

Chinese proverb that is, what else? I wish we could be as crystal clear when it comes to the characteristics […]
December 6th, 2015

Calling the Activists. Calling you.

I started these Daily Thoughts about 565 days ago, give or take, or at least this is the number of […]
December 5th, 2015

‘We are building’ vs. ‘We are solving’. One shapes your future, the other fixes the past.

Facts: abysmal sales in the supermarket chain, strong competitor activity, decrease customer loyalty. Guess what, new CEO Analysis: old fashion […]
December 4th, 2015

We love organizational diagnosis in Technicolor charts. We love the organizational solutions waiting for them. The bridge, is another matter.

Oh! We love diagnosis! Battalions of experts are ready to tell us about the 5 issues and the 3 risks […]
December 3rd, 2015

‘A problem with decision making’ is almost never a problem with making decisions. Here are 3 scenarios.

Many organizations claim that they have a problem with decision making. Maybe, or maybe not. There are at least three […]
December 2nd, 2015

10 Performance Appraisal questions of yourself with yourself : the examined life of the manager.

Socrates was then one who came up with the ‘unexamined life is not worth living’. (And then he chose to […]
December 1st, 2015

Bring in the Buffers. Noise Amplifier people create loud tsunamis from a drop of questions in the organization

Noise Amplifiers. These people will pick up a little piece of problem, a little noise, a little breath of restlessness […]
November 30th, 2015

Given answers, go back to see the solidity of the questions before you adopt them.

If anybody tells you that they have the answer, then probably don’t understand the question This is how the late […]
November 29th, 2015

Defining ourselves by what we are against, does not advance the cause of the for.

I have always been a bit wary of people who repeatedly define themselves by what they are against. It makes […]