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November 28th, 2015

Don’t let the expression ‘this is just business’ be a synonymous for inhuman. Business? Not in my name.

Somewhere along the line in the history of ‘business’, something went wrong and people took the wrong turn at the […]
November 27th, 2015

Stuck is the worse status. Worse than being wrong.

You are stuck when confronted with dilemmas. Maybe  contradictory business decisions, or maybe the need to chose between two evils. […]
November 26th, 2015

3 kinds of people you need to replace; 3 kinds of people you need. Development Plan done.

Three bad news people: People who sell discontent. They become experts. You may have an entire internal Sales Force of […]
November 25th, 2015

7 Platitudes in Organizational Life, in need of a very loud ‘really?’ Louder! And some debunking.

We can do much better than this. But we don’t. On the contrary, we exploit these platitudes and repeat them […]
November 22nd, 2015

Jet Skiing Management vs. Scuba Diving Management

The writer Nicholas Carr said about the influence of the Internet in the way he wrote and, in general, in […]
November 21st, 2015

Leaders as architects: how to build the house, page one.

The closest thing to designing and building an organization is the designing and building a house. You can build a […]
November 20th, 2015

I love Apple, I hate Apple: could the discussion on culture be slightly more elevated?

An article on the Apple culture ( What Apple employees say about the company secretive culture? ) is a fascinating […]
November 19th, 2015

The ultimate goal of ‘Employee Engagement’, or ‘Change Management’, is their early retirement, not to have to talk about them.

I while ago I wrote that the ultimate form of Employee Engagement is a Company of Volunteers. In a ‘company […]
November 18th, 2015

Millenials have in common their age. The rest is more about the world we all are in, the meal we have cooked for their dinner.

In a recent conference, the very sharp mind of Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, ex HP, ex Nokia, reminded the […]
November 17th, 2015

Counter-fundamentalism secret weapon is yet to be deployed fully. Homo Sapiens drops bombs. Homo Imitans changes minds.

The best way to help dysfunctional families to get out of their habits and become functional is not an army […]
November 16th, 2015

If you marry a summary, you’ll breed bullet points. Life becomes much easier, if hardily real.

‘The exercise was very rich, everybody participated deeply, the walls were full of flipcharts with stuff. So may ideas floating […]
November 15th, 2015

‘Change management’ forgotten statement: this will not change

‘Change management’ usually forgets a vital component: the things that don’t change or need to change, or, indeed, must not […]
November 14th, 2015

The thoughts are with Paris

The thoughts are with Paris   Liberté, égalité, fraternité Liberty, equality, fraternity
November 13th, 2015

10 alternative questions on Culture and Engagement.

This is my alternative to the Gallup 12. You can develop a whole Organizational Development philosophy around these questions. These […]
November 12th, 2015

Give me a good practice and I will create a good theory to explain it. Even a good philosophy and a disruptive worldview.

Modern and not so modern ‘social movements’ with or a without business proposition are portrayed as a concerted and positioned […]
November 11th, 2015

Leaders who have little control on things, but who think they have a lot of it, are the ones who fear loosing control most.

Fear of losing control is a funny thing. It does not seem to correlate with how much control you have […]
November 10th, 2015

Stop press: The C-suite people, and top leadership, major problem revealed.

For CEOs, CFOs, CHROs, and other Cs, and Divisional Ds’, survey after survey try to identify their focus, their concerns, […]
November 9th, 2015

Common people doing uncommon things together: a plain language definition of the organization.

Peter Drucker put it in his own style: ‘No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and […]
November 8th, 2015

A 10 line Street Social Dictionary to navigate your social business and avoid fooling yourself with mistaken expectations.

Customer: buys your product, once, or twice, pays, that’s it. Thanks User: buys your product, once, or twice, pays, uses, […]
November 7th, 2015

Is technology transforming (management) life? Is it good or bad? Is this the best you can do with a question?

Back from a conference on ‘technology and management’ (Drucker Forum, Vienna), I realise how futile some discussions on ‘technology’ are. […]