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June 20th, 2015

The ‘initiative’ often lets personal commitment off the hook

‘For every problem, the Victorians have a building’. For every idea that we need to carry forward, we invent an […]

June 19th, 2015

I want to import this ‘act of kindness’ into business life

I know of a brilliant medical doctor who, in front of a worried patient, perhaps with some imaginary worries, perhaps […]

June 18th, 2015

Blasting middle management is a sign of leadership incompetence

For years, middle management has been targeted by executives, business leaders, business gurus and so called ‘change experts’ as the […]

June 17th, 2015

From ‘us and them’ to ‘us with them’. Don’t kill the ‘us’ on behalf of a fictitious ‘global’.

I sometimes think that many global ‘one company’ initiatives are missing the point. The intentions are good: ‘look, we are […]

June 16th, 2015

Some working places are ‘non-places’, with the inspiration of Isolation Clinical Units

Working in a ‘non-place place’ can’t deliver inspirations and aspirations. Ideas need infections, not Isolation Clinical Units Marc Auge is […]

June 15th, 2015

Leadership is a social concept, not an individual trait. But we are fascinated by the individual stock.

Leadership is a term that describes a relationship. No relationship, no leadership. Leadership can only be defined in terms of […]

June 14th, 2015

‘We have no time’ people and ‘There is plenty of time’ people, share the same sixty minute hour.

We all know these two types of people. The ‘there is plenty of time to review X or finish Y’ […]

June 13th, 2015

From airplane cabin temperature control: warmer to sleep, colder to awake. A culture thermostat lesson for organizations.

Temperature control of the cabin is used by airlines in transatlantic flights as a way to change behaviour. It may […]

June 12th, 2015

Consider culture before attending this meeting ( with thanks to ‘Consider the environment before printing’)

Do I really, really, really need to attend that meting? Do I really, really, really need to send one from […]

June 11th, 2015

5 things very successful leaders have in common

1. They don’t read blogs entitled ‘5 things very successful leaders have in common’. 2. They don’t care about lists […]

June 10th, 2015

The leader who said ‘make your numbers’ instead of ‘have a good trip back’

A friend of mind remembers one of his bosses very well. ‘Make the numbers’, was apparently his way to say […]

June 9th, 2015

‘Employee engagement’ is always a line with missing words. Engagement with what? Whom?

When I classified Employee Engagement into six models, I made the point that one overriding classification is the binary ‘with […]

June 8th, 2015

Mondays shape Tuesdays. If you could just fast forward…

Winston Churchill said, referring to the Houses of Parliament in the UK, ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’. […]

June 7th, 2015

Compatible Dreams + The Non Negotiable = The Journey (AKA the Company)

In a massive street demonstration for Anti Something Big, you have the Anti Something Big activists, the Anti Everything, the […]

June 6th, 2015

Culture = story = business card = halo effect.

I don’t copy and paste in my blogs, little or a lot. But today it’s an exception. This is Fox […]

June 5th, 2015

The Process and The Outcome: married, just friends, or it’s complicated?

So you have The Process and The Outcome dating. You would have thought that they are having a good time. […]

June 4th, 2015

The UK Labour Party, Malaysian Airlines and ‘I am Really Stuck Inc’, they all need Reboot! not ‘Navel-Gazing-Improvement’

When we developed Reboot! a while ago as an intense Accelerator (strategy and change accelerator), a simple premise was in […]

June 3rd, 2015

The curious case of Castro and the Pope. Or maybe not.

I wrote yesterday that magnetism should be incorporated to the category of Prize Winner in corporate cultures: ‘I want to […]

June 2nd, 2015

Magnetic Places are priceless. Run your own ‘People-in-the-queue’ Test.

To lead a Magnet Place (‘I’d love to be there, work there’, ‘I’d love to be part of it’, ‘I […]

June 1st, 2015

Pilot or pastor? From the No-nonsense Francis School of Leadership

Pope Francis has done it again. I mean, his probably weekly plain English (well, Italian or Spanish) bit of nudging […]