It is said that in any organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I often think that […]

Chinese proverb that is, what else? I wish we could be as crystal clear when it comes to the characteristics […]

Working in a ‘non-place place’ can’t deliver inspirations and aspirations. Ideas need infections, not Clinical Isolation Units. Marc Auge is […]

Organizational anthropology sounds like a grandiose academic affair. You may imagine the anthropologists armed with notebooks and cameras capturing the […]

‘Science advances by a series of funerals’. This is how John Brockman, founder of The Edge, and editor of a […]

There is so much to fix and manage inside the organization that the task could be never ending. Soon, and […]

‘Change management’ usually forgets a vital component: the things that don’t change or need to change, or, indeed, must not […]

I shared yesterday the tragedy of the obvious. The obvious that is so obvious that we don’t see it. Read […]

A man was leading a caravan of donkeys and crossing the border almost every day, coming back with apparently the […]

Employee empowerment is an output, an outcome. If you start thinking of employee empowerment as an input, something you are […]

You are stuck when confronted with dilemmas. Maybe contradictory business decisions, or maybe the need to choose between two evils. […]

Business loves inspirational stories. The world of entrepreneurship and leadership constantly draw on stories. Many people love sports analogies. Some […]

The great Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote about the early 20th Century Spanish society as being ‘led by […]

There is a big difference between copying and reverse engineering. Many people in business wish they could copy the great […]

This is an anthropology report. We’ve found this tribe: the people all wear the same multi-coloured clothes. They paint their […]

I have always been a bit wary of people who repeatedly define themselves by what they are against. It makes […]

I am of course paraphrasing Mario Cuomo’s ‘You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose’. Cuomo (1932-2015) was an American […]

Friends, my heart is broken today. The UK is leaving the European Union tonight at 11:00 pm continental time. Many […]

Some organisations, or groups inside the organisation, suffer from lack of self belief. You could say weak self esteem. The […]

Arriving at the clean and clinical Stockholm airport, my pre-booked taxi is failing me. I have some time to spare […]