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My third framing comment, after (1) framing new behaviours, and (2) the framing of the overall narrative of the organization, […]
I said yesterday that I would put framing at the top of the list on ‘leadership tasks’ I also said […]
I put framing at the top of the list on ‘leadership tasks’. One of those non-rocket-sciences around us that we […]
We never solve problems, we trade them off. The thought is not depressing. It is liberating because it means we […]
If I had a say in new roles for large organizations, I think I would establish this new Division: VP […]
If you follow my Daily Thoughts you would know that I despise Employee Engagement as something that you need to […]
When my daughter was in primary school, I was invited by the teacher to give a presentation to small girls […]
No medium to large size company has a single culture. No medium to large size French, or British or American […]
Affinity, like-minded groupings and ‘we know each other very well’ works if what you want is to get things done, […]
Our concept of organizational culture as a receptacle for values, beliefs, attitudes, mindsets, ways of doing, written rules, unwritten rules, […]
An 18 year old paper in social anthropology by Marilyn Strathern (then at Cambridge) had the intriguing title of ‘The […]
Employee engagement is an outcome, not in input. You don’t inject engagement or engineer activities to engage. Those do exist. […]
I sometimes think that management thinking, management speak and management education (that includes ‘research’) makes everything possible to avoid critical […]
This is the last one in the series of 10 Organizational Pathologies, and the longest write up. Sorry! Bear with […]
Attributed to Peter Drucker, we have inherited the ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. Drucker meant that you need […]
Almost there, two to go. I have posted one pathology per day (see the website) Busy-ness! From all organizational pathologies […]
Over inclusiveness paralysis occurs as a side effect of good intentions. The intentions are usually democratic, egalitarian, based on respect […]
Processes are supposed to provide these three things A sure and presumably tested path to address repetitive situations, so that […]
‘Postponing’ (AKA as procrastination) maybe healthy and reasonable, maybe not. Cultures are created by behaviours. The best predictors of behaviours […]
In medicine, autoimmune disease is one in which ‘the body produces antibodies that attack its own tissues, leading to the deterioration […]
