Back in 1994, Jim Collins, consultant and author, gained a lot of attention with his book Built To Last: Successful […]

Nuccio Ordine, an Italian professor, has written an essay of this title, to my knowledge not translated into English. It […]

A while ago, I was told an anecdote about an MBA student who returned to their alma mater for a […]

List your competitors, then, compare yourself with a different list. Most of the answers lie outside your immediate peer circle. […]

These are the 10 strategic options you have at your disposal all the time, as I use them with my […]

The perfect state of a healthy organization is unfinished. Like a human being. ‘Born too early’ (Campbell’s hero). Finished structures […]

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

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

This quote is from an unknown author. He or she must have known a thing or two about the futility […]

I call Collective Leadership that state in the evolution of management teams or leadership teams when the power of the […]

As Mark Twain said himself, ‘The death of the charismatic leader has been grossly exaggerated’. The problem is that ‘charisma’ […]

Today, there are more similarities between a teenager in Shanghai and a teenager in Rome, or Singapore and Madrid, or […]

Behavioural /cultural shaping in organizations does not scale up by simply the leaders having the right mindset and motivation. A […]

Many times in my consulting work, I find myself facing this dilemma. Do I involve many people on the client’s […]

In Latin ‘Post hoc ergo propter hoc’. Free translation: B follows A, so A must be the cause of B. […]

Innovation and renewal requires your windows open to the world. Plenty of organizations out there are experimenting with models, far […]

Commenting on the communist legacy, a soviet academic Oleg Bogomolov, who must have known a thing or two about things […]

We spend more time on preparing for doing than in doing. That would be good if we were just talking […]

Medium and big organizations tend to use a competence system that segments people by grades and by degree of competence. […]

I am paraphrasing British philosopher Simon Blackburn who said the same about scientists entering the temple of philosophy. There is […]