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September 7th, 2015

‘The incumbent always loses first’. That may be a winning strategy

In Double Down: Game Change 2012, the detailed account of the USA presidential campaign of that year, by Mark Halperin […]
September 6th, 2015

3 self-sabotage mechanisms in organizations.

Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]
September 5th, 2015

Being compelled to react, does not make you good leader. The clue, and the winning, is in the number of problems that you decide not to address.

Every morning, when we weak up, put our work clothes on and head for whatever is in our Outlook or […]
September 4th, 2015

My top 5 Leadership questions at the top of the agenda.

Here are my top five,  from my organizational consulting work. The paraphrasing is mine, the ownership is shared with my […]
September 3rd, 2015

Organizational Decluttering: A crusade in waiting that may need you as leader

Einstein said, “I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from […]
September 2nd, 2015

If you needed to remember only one classification of people: ‘external and internal locus of control’

This is old Psychology lesson. ‘External locus of control’ translation: the problem is somewhere else, not me. It’s the environment, […]
September 1st, 2015

‘Jeff Bezos assures Amazon Employees that HR is working 100 Hours a week to address their complaints’ (that they are working 100 hours a week)

Whatever he had in mind, it was communicated in an incredibly poor way. The prize for messaging goes to Amazon […]
August 31st, 2015

Management is analogue. Communication is digital. Have two desks.

A recent book by ex-Microsoft researcher and now MIT prof Kentaro Toyama (Geek Heresy, 20015) is not precisely novel on […]
August 29th, 2015

‘The tyranny of the moment’. Liberating Leaders Wanted.

  Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a Norwegian Anthropology professor that has achieved more than  any of his fellow anthropologists: you […]
August 28th, 2015

The Open Plan Office may be a prison with invisible hanging posters: ‘You will collaborate’

Who needs walls when we have screens? There is open plan and open plan. Open plan with Dilbert cubicles is […]
August 27th, 2015

Performance Appraisals: the 5 reasons why it’s so hard to change them or get rid of them

Only when you see Performance Management as rituals, you can understand why we still do them in the same unchanged […]
August 26th, 2015

‘How to make change sustainable?’ This question needs a warning in the label: ‘but not too much?’

‘Sustainable’ is a magic word. Inevitable seat at the table of of ‘correct language’, 21st Century version. Many things have […]
August 25th, 2015

Decouple discussion and decision-making. Inject a buffer. Relax, it’s not a sin.

Empirically, it works. It has been mentioned in many places. But the false semi-god of managerial efficiency makes us feel […]
August 24th, 2015

Google’s modern family, ‘alphabet’, is not a company but a platform of incubators (one more incubated than others). Corporate is Mother Host.

Why have Larry Page and Sergey Brin produced the Alphabet rabbit out of the hat? They had no choice ( […]
August 17th, 2015

Daily Thoughts is back the 24th of August: just checking in.

Daily Thoughts is back the 24th of August, daily again at 08:00 am UK time in www.leandroherrero.com and then in […]
August 16th, 2015

Antifragility: powered by Viral Change TM

Si (Sisan Si Alhir) has organised a webinar in which Leandro Herrero will be talking about ANTIFRAGILITY:POWERED BY VIRAL CHANGE™ […]
August 6th, 2015

Complexity: another short, summer reading list from Daily Thoughts

Whilst Daily Thoughts is still in pause mode, here is another short list of Daily on Complexity. Every successful company’s […]
August 4th, 2015

Simplicity: a summer reading list from the Daily Thoughts collection

Whilst Daily Thoughts is on holiday for a few days, here is a short collection of Daily Thoughts on Simplicity. […]
August 1st, 2015

Daily Thoughts is on holiday. But we can keep ourselves connected

Thanks for you daily following via email, LinkedIn Pulse or twitter. I am in a little pause for a couple […]
July 31st, 2015

10 ingredients to cook your strategy

  List your competitors, then, compare yourself with a different list. Most of the answers lie outside your immediate peer […]