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April 21st, 2015

The 15 key Viral Change™ principles

I have been asked many times to list them. Here they are: 1. There is no change unless it is […]

April 20th, 2015

The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘Powerful Oversimplifications’

‘Powerful oversimplifications’ was the term used by Bruce Henderson, founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to define the matrixes, […]

April 19th, 2015

Another week, another McKinsey report, another ‘sharing of results’. OMG, we can do better.

I wrote before that if you have some doubts about some data, you just have to say that it comes […]

April 18th, 2015

Five ‘structures’ in search of a corporate space. Leaders, this is your homework.

  These are ‘functions’ and ‘structures’ in need of spaces in the organization. You may not be brave enough, or […]

April 17th, 2015

Our real worlds and their avatars: management beware.

In the words of a pioneer of Psychology, we’d be better off grabbing the reality of humanity for what it […]

April 17th, 2015

My Stockholm (airport) Syndrome

Arriving at the clean and clinical Stockholm airport, my pre-booked taxi is failing me. I have some time to spear […]

April 15th, 2015

Karaoke management consulting

Is this what people want? Singing along what the Big Gurus have provided? Music and lyrics? Some times I feel […]

April 14th, 2015

The Returning Bomber Paradox: a case of reframing the problem. More on Critical Thinking.

In WWII there was a curious episode of injection of critical thinking, not entirely well publicised. Big airplanes bombers in […]

April 13th, 2015

‘Invert, always invert’: a fundamental, zero-cost, unstuck management technique

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a 19th century Swiss mathematician is remembered by many things in his scientific turf, but by […]

April 12th, 2015

Bring ‘character’ back.

We call it character assassination for a reason. It’s the ultimate attack. The attack to the uniqueness of an individual, […]

April 11th, 2015

Hang on, I thought lions…

This is a quote repeated hundred times, attributed to hundred people, reproduced in hundred posters and that you can find […]

April 10th, 2015

The market for Second Hand Thoughts is flourishing, never been so huge. But outsourcing your mind is the ultimate laziness.

Many of us spend quite a lot of our time in what we call ‘work’. The business day has now […]

April 9th, 2015

The End of Management, not the end of managing. Here I go again.

In the organization, ‘people mobilization’ is the name of the game It is the working title of one of my […]

April 8th, 2015

The “Sokal Syndrome”: Intellectual nudity, Intellectual Impostures, Mind Grafitters and Airport Books Business School Graduates

The 1966 Spring/Summer (special) issue of Social Text, an academic, “fashionable American cultural studies journal”, featured an article entitled “Transgressing […]

April 7th, 2015

Corporate language needs a transfusion of humanity. It can be done.

Corporate speak is of course tribal. So, to belong, you have to speak the tribal idiom. I have just finished […]

April 6th, 2015

Corporate culture? Start with subcultures, find the tribes, and look for the unwritten rules of their dynamics.

With some exceptions, there is no such a thing as single, global, monolithic corporate culture. There is usually a confederation […]

April 5th, 2015

Diversity is not a ratio.

Wow! A woman at the helm! I still remember, vaguely, the first time I heard in one of my multiple […]

April 4th, 2015

Busy-ness is either a symptom, a warning, or a serious disease. Never a healthy state.

Busyness could be a cancer. It has nothing to do with business even if it’s just one letter different. Busyness […]

April 3rd, 2015

‘Memorable’ is beautiful. ‘Exceeding expectations’ is sad, tired, and as charismatic as a dead fish

Meeting expectation, exceeding expectations and all that jazz! It’s often said that success equals performance minus expectations. Three comments on […]

April 2nd, 2015

Does the distinction ‘leader-manager’ need to be retired? I dare to suggest.

I must confess I have always been, I suspect one of the very few, uncomfortable with the distinction leader-manager. It […]