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January 9th, 2015

The trouble with ‘happiness’ in business: ultimate goal or oil for the machine? None of the above? Or not the business of business?

The pursue of happiness as a business goal and/or cultural goal, encounters all spectrum of emotions. For some, a naïve […]
January 8th, 2015

‘It looks like a Bell Curve. It must be a HR Performance Appraisal’. Not in this Century. Normal distributions are dead

Performance appraisal or performance management are one thing. Force Ranking into an artificial normal distribution of people in the organization, […]
January 7th, 2015

Trespasses will be recruited: a four-word strategy in the Battle of Ideas

Societal issues, clash of ideologies, fundamentalism, political engagement (or lack of it), organizational innovation, Leadership 2015, no matter what direction […]
January 6th, 2015

Create fast innovation spaces: kindle ideas in your own Lab126

We are social animals. We live in spaces, with rules, with rituals, in tribal environments. We are both architects of […]
January 5th, 2015

One single behavior can create a revolution. It would work both, inside and outside the company.

This is Elizabeth Warren, American Senator, ex Harvard professor, who is ‘not running for President’ (as most future runners say), […]
December 24th, 2014

Leaving the year behind, I see the next one full of shared possibilities. Merry Christmas!

‘The un-examined life’, a philosophical, Socratic concept that I have referred to before, is a good prompt for the end-of-year […]
December 23rd, 2014

Leadership: still the elusive friend that refuses management captivity.

Daily Thoughts are back in full on the 5th of January together with the pre-launch of my new book ‘However; […]
December 22nd, 2014

Thoughts on (de) cluttering, for the Christmas pause

Daily Thoughts full steam version is back on the 5th of January. But the conversation continues. Just whispering… I guess […]
December 21st, 2014

The ‘Daily Thoughts’ will resume in January, but, daily thinking does not go on holiday. Two notes on our organizational ‘structures’

There are 245 ‘Daily Thoughts’ in the collection. In my new book HOWEVER, which I will be pre-launching soon, they […]
December 20th, 2014

A pause to create some space (walking the talk!) But the conversation is still going. Happy holidays!

Time out! I am pausing the Daily Thoughts until the New Year. Time to reflect and regroup. Since March, I […]
December 19th, 2014

The OCD enterprise is, not surprisingly, depressed.

The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is one of automatic movements and rituals. Patients have to repeat sequences of events, typically […]
December 18th, 2014

The best question is the one which has no answer

Recently, I keep finding myself going back all the time to ‘the art of questioning’,  as something being at the […]
December 17th, 2014

Will the last employee in Command and Control Inc/Ltd/Plc/SA please turn off the lights? (But have a good lantern with you)

The new, emerging organizations, many people would agree, are more collaborative, more leadership-distributed, less top-down, with more levels of empowerment […]
December 16th, 2014

The clouds move to follow me; the traffic lights go green when I move

These two statements represent a form of magical thinking of the kind seen in ancient humans (clouds) and todays humans […]
December 15th, 2014

The pharma company that forgot to display its purpose

A few months ago, I was in the lobby of a global pharma company waiting for my appointment. I sat […]
December 14th, 2014

The 3 Grand Ds (‘Direction, Discovery and Destiny’), have also their 3 little personal and powerful ‘d’ sisters.

In the book by Gary Hamel and C.K Prahalad, ‘Competing for the Future’, the authors launched what since then I […]
December 13th, 2014

What psychoanalysis taught me about root causes: the comfort of finding them is not matched by the quality of their truth

The degree of comfort in discovering the roots of things, cannot be taken as proof of the truth. The best […]
December 12th, 2014

I make my best clients restless. I make the others comfortable

My work as organization architect entails exploring avenues, not the offloading of  a dictionary of templates onto my clients. With […]
December 11th, 2014

There is something only you can do: be yourself. Everything else can be outsourced.

There is something only you can live: your own life. Socrates said that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’. […]
December 10th, 2014

It takes only one question to know about your model of leadership (and there is always an alternative question, just in case)

Don’t define leadership for me. Tell me what legacy you want to leave behind, and I’ll know. What am I […]