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March 27th, 2018

Organizational pathologies (3 of 10) : Premature de-hierarchical-ization

Hierarchy is dead, proclaim people in the advanced, enlightened, guru-read organization. Hierarchy is bad, ugly, cause of all problems, constraining, […]
March 26th, 2018

Organizational Pathologies (2 of 10). Over-communication

Communicate, communicate, communicate, we were told. All the problems go back to communication. This is your default culprit. In doubt, […]
March 23rd, 2018

Organizational Pathologies. An update (1 of 10): Solutionism

Solutionism  is a common condition in which the energy and airtime of the organization is consumed in finding solutions to […]
March 20th, 2018

6 types of employees I want (2 of 2): synthesizers, designers and re-inventors of wheels

I shared yesterday three types of employees I want for the modern organization. Different characters on the payroll. If there […]
March 19th, 2018

6 types of employees I want (1 of 2): craftsmen, entrepreneurs and activists

My ideal modern organization has different characters on the payroll. If there is a payroll. These are three of them […]
March 15th, 2018

Obituary: Incrementalism

Please pray for the soul of incrementalism that, after a long and slow incremental illness, left us for good. After […]
March 14th, 2018

The Church of Hard Evidence has many funny members of the congregation

I have never found a client that says we don’t need evidence, or data, or facts, or hard measures. Most […]
March 13th, 2018

The world is messy, the consulting world is MECE

I’ve learnt recently  a new Mckinsean acronym: MECE (Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive). Meaning, you break ‘it’ all down  in (Mutually […]
March 8th, 2018

Don’t read this. It’s a commercial. (Part 2 of 2, promise)

Ok, so you are back. I shared yesterday 5 shifts. Here are the other 5. As I said yesterday, Viral […]
March 7th, 2018

Don’t read this. It’s a commercial. (part 1 of 2)

  Ok, if you insist, here it is. Commercial or not, it’s also true. I need to share with you […]
March 6th, 2018

Casinos don’t have clocks.

Ryan Holiday (media critic, stoicism vendor, marketing strategist) is ‘the best-selling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a […]
March 5th, 2018

The video and the audio of empowerment are out of sync.

Have you seen those videos, or TV interviews, or programmes, in which there is a disconnect between what the person […]
March 2nd, 2018

A vast epidemic in organizations that seems to grow and grow

I must say I am getting very frustrated to see more and more companies which  workforce seems to function as […]
March 1st, 2018

Networks have hierarchy and hierarchy have networks of it. Excuse the ranting.

When I was young, very young, many moons ago, I remember my school mates and the priests having discussions such […]
February 28th, 2018

Memo: Permission never required, so don’t ask.

I read a while ago this story. Within the highly structured and hierarchical (by design) Catholic church, a Religious Order […]
February 27th, 2018

‘A few good men’.

Part 2 of 2 from yesterday’s ‘The (re)volution will be postponed. Once more’ Margaret Mead (anthropologist, 1901-1978) ‘Never doubt that a […]
February 26th, 2018

The organization (re)volution will be postponed. Once more.

The below is the equivalent of how in some organizations the so called ‘management of change’  or cultural transformation are […]
February 23rd, 2018

Which benchmarking data did you use to fall in love?

Did you fall in love after reading case studies and using benchmarking data?  Did you see the Mona Lisa in […]
February 22nd, 2018

Entrepreneurs on the payroll

Maybe, just maybe, we don’t  need ‘managers’ and ‘employees’, as in generals and troops. My strong bet is for a […]
February 21st, 2018

Tripadvisorisation of life

Really? Recently I went to visit a specialist doctor in a private facility. Of course I was handed out a […]