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July 12th, 2018

Management technique: the transplant

The answer to individual negativity is group positiveness.  Fighting individual negativity at individual level is a risky fight. If you […]

July 11th, 2018

The obvious but overlooked fact that connectivity and collaboration are not always good.

Increasing the connectivity of people, who will benefit from enhanced collaboration ,to achieve good things better, faster, differently, is a […]

July 10th, 2018

Engage to flip. (2 of 3). A magic threshold of number of people to shape a company culture? It’s actually complicated.

(A similar version of this post was released out of sync with it;’s part 1. Apologies for those who got […]

July 9th, 2018

Engage to flip. (1 of 3). A magic threshold of number of people needed to shape a company culture? The headlines

A glitch in the system made the publication of part 2 of this out of sync and was sent last […]

July 4th, 2018

Team, the noun, the structure, or teaming up, the verb, the behaviour?

Teamocracy may be the worst form of people collaboration  except for all those other forms that have been tried from […]

July 3rd, 2018

Cooking and shopping are two different things. I wish some ‘change managers’ could distinguish

If you talk to my clients, they will tell you that I use cooking analogies all the time. Cook this, […]

July 2nd, 2018

Focus, focus! But only after un-focusing a lot

Our managerial training and praxis has been quite successful at making us guilty of not focusing enough on a task […]

June 28th, 2018

Change management models on sale.

Give me a sequence, some boxes, a template on steps, lots of arrows and a PowerPoint, and I will create […]

June 27th, 2018

How many people on your payroll have never licked a stamp?

Beloit College, in Wisconsin, creates every year a ‘Mindset List’ It shows a list of facts about a particular new […]

June 26th, 2018

Storytelling wins wars whilst everything else is fighting battles (and 3 of 3): event shocks coming to you, that may not feel like gifts.

In October 2013, a ship carrying migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. 300 people drowned. As The Guardian journalist Kenan […]

June 25th, 2018

Three magic questions for leaders

1. Will I regret not doing this? Bezos, Amazon chief. Here it is from a recent article: ‘When faced with […]

June 22nd, 2018

Storytelling wins wars whilst everybody else is fighting battles. (2 of 3): leaders of organizations, are you listening?

Friday 25 May, 2018. Ireland votes 66.4% in favour of repealing the Eight Amendment of its Constitution, inserted in 1983, […]

June 21st, 2018

Storytelling wins wars whilst everyybody else is fighting battles (1 of 3): the ingredients

Today we are in front of daily wars of narratives: political, social, models of the world, futures, concept of Man. […]

June 20th, 2018

The bottleneck in organizations is gone North. Stop blaming middle management. Look up.

For the last, at least, 10 years of my consulting life, I have struggled to confirm the thesis, well publicised […]

June 18th, 2018

Grab the magic thresholds in the organization’s life

Continuous culture shaping within an organization equals social movement: large scale behavioural and cultural change, for a purpose, powered by […]

June 15th, 2018

People who welcome criticism don’t say ‘I welcome criticism’

‘I welcome criticism’ is often an alibi to avoid criticism. OK, that’s as harsh as it goes for a generic. […]

June 13th, 2018

‘How can we make this fail?” is a more powerful question than its opposite

Accustomed as we are to create plans to succeed  on something, this may sound counterintuitive. Creating (serious) plans for failure […]

June 12th, 2018

Plan for the intended, watch the unintended, embrace the extended

(1) We plan operations, change, leadership, anything, with intended consequences in mind. These are often translated into KPIs, milestones, and […]

June 11th, 2018

For every ‘I have a dream’, there are thousands of ‘are you serious?’

For every community struggling to achieve something, and deciding to launch some form of collective action; for every minority that […]

June 7th, 2018

Mind the frame ( or you may regret your frame of mind)

George Lakoff, a familiar name in these Daily Thoughts, is on a mission. The US cognitive psychology specialist,  emeritus professor, […]