Benchmarking is a rear-mirror strategy. It’s about catching up with something that has already happened. People who spend too much […]

The hour has come. Radical is the word. From the Latin, radix, it means root. We need to get to […]

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

Many years ago, I got into Decision Analysis at the hands of my good friend Larry Philips of the London […]

Many years ago, I learnt from the UNHCR, the UN refugee Agency based in Denmark, that many global NGOs of […]

Management cultures, particularly Anglo Saxon, love acronyms. This is something new employees need to learn. If coming from another industry, […]

There are always people who ‘don’t get it’, are against cultural change efforts, do not support a programme, torpedo it, […]

The Great Man Theory was born in Scotland, the child of philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795 –1881) – “The […]

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 […]