The traditional model of change is the one I call ‘destination’ type, that is, how to go from A to […]

New organizations, and old ones in the business of transforming themselves, would be better off learning by heart these two […]

Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage. These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]

Command and control management has fewer friends, and it’s quite terminally ill as well. The heirs are fighting for a piece […]

Somewhere in the post-Covid peak, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to pay attention anymore to anything that starts with […]

Employee engagement efforts, ownership values and empowerment behaviours must meet at one point. It’s simple, not terribly controversial, based upon […]

For me, the most damaging use of the employee engagement framework is the widespread one that states that ‘engagement’ predicts […]

Engagement, retention even activism…Traditional models of employee engagement are getting a bit tired. They are starting to look the same, […]

Corporate grade, reporting lines and membership of leadership teams in organizations often go together. But unbundling these components is a […]

Leading a meeting for the purposes of building a team (on top of achieving some business goals) may include a […]

  If any of these are a good picture of your organization, you need to add ‘critical thinking’ to the […]

‘Meetings’ and ‘teams’ are two different things. Team equals meeting, is a cancer. Our language has been perverted. ‘Let’s bring […]

Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, […]

If you want to have a conversation about the future of work, the nature of work, the post-pandemic work, the […]

Welcome to my weekly focus on culture change, leadership and organizational design. This week, I focus on what culture is, […]

For those of you not yet familiar with the change. Daily Thoughts has evolved. New name and format. Rather than daily, I […]

Daily Thoughts has evolved. New name and format. Rather than daily, I will share with you a weekly focus on culture […]

In case you missed my first edition, sent out last week, Daily Thoughts has evolved. Now a new format, rather than daily, I […]

So, I’m back. But in a different format. Rather than daily thoughts, I will now share with you a regular […]

There is only one strategy test: what will you tell the children? There is only one strategy test: what will […]