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August 2nd, 2014

The battle for the 3S : Synthesis, Sense, and Simplicity

Let me share with you my 3S, where I suggest you put your money 1. Synthesis. My followers, readers, clients, […]
August 1st, 2014

Tribal brands that teach us a lesson

This is an anthropology report. We’ve found this tribe: the people all wear the same multi-coloured clothes. They paint their […]
July 31st, 2014

Using national cultural differences to explain everything, is a smokescreen for managerial incompetence.

When I see that the first port of use of managerial justification, particularly difficulties, is ‘cultural differences’, I smell a […]
July 30th, 2014

I’ll say it again: people are not resistant to change

Am I the only voice? ‘People are resistant to change’ is the silliest statement people can make.  I have written […]
July 29th, 2014

However…

Many years ago, I got into Decision Analysis at the hands of my good friend Larry Philips of the London […]
July 28th, 2014

Corporate needs a 60’s counter-culture revolution, and these are five trends that could deliver it.

The 60’s was a counter-culture time of rapid change, whether you liked or not, whether you have lived through it […]
July 27th, 2014

DADYC? (Do Acronyms Drive You Crazy?)

Management cultures, particularly Anglo Saxon, love acronyms. This is something new employees need to learn. If coming from another industry, […]
July 26th, 2014

‘Disruptive’: a word for all seasons, in need of a holiday.

Jill Lepore, author, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Harvard professor of American History has created a little storm, […]
July 25th, 2014

Independence is dead. Write your declaration of Inter-dependence

There was a time when writing a Declaration of Independence was the climax of an identity quest. This is a […]
July 24th, 2014

It’s official: the single, magic bullet, that characterises good leadership is to back off.

It should not surprise us that people are constantly looking for the magic bullet of leadership. What makes a good […]
July 23rd, 2014

Bottom-lining everything is simply silly. Tell the bottom-liners to calm down and speak properly.

The following line is taken from one of multiple leadership coaching service offerings that you can find in the web. […]
July 22nd, 2014

Is the creative working unit ‘the pair’? It would be worth experimenting

A forthcoming book by Joshua Wolf Shenk entitled ‘Powers of Two’ makes an interesting case for what the author calls […]
July 21st, 2014

Corporate Botox

My local DYI/Bricolage/Hardware story has a terrible service. But now, in the tradition started by Wall Mart (tradition now extinct) […]
July 20th, 2014

Your Branding Department is your entire workforce

Your workforce is your sales force, your PR department, your Reputation Management Group, your Brand Managers, your Advocacy Group. It […]
July 19th, 2014

Is ruthlessness a leadership strength?

In times of crisis people look up in search of leadership, and in the looking up, they expect decisiveness, resolution […]
July 18th, 2014

Rebels: they need a cause

There are always rebels and mavericks in organizations, nonconformists, contrarian and deviants. They may be tolerated, ignored, embraced or disregarded. […]
July 17th, 2014

Heroes on the payroll: the good news and the bad news

Some people have a hero within. They have this tremendous ability to mobilize energy, jump in when big issues present, […]
July 16th, 2014

Solutionism as a culture: proficiency in problem solving

I have become apprehensive about the use of the term ‘solutions driven’. I am a big culprit however. I have […]
July 15th, 2014

We buy an elephant and then we train the elephant to behave like a gazelle.

What would be wrong with buying gazelles in the first place? The answer I hear sometimes is, ‘Well, the market […]
July 14th, 2014

Leadership’s Splendid Expeditions

“The history of mankind might be described by a cynic as a series of splendid expeditions towards the wrong goal […]