In any change programme that any organization wants to start, they will start by thinking of the things that they […]

When creating effective change in any organization, there are 40 rules that, in my experience, are the key between success […]

For more than 30 years I have been involved in ‘change’ in organizations. Again and again, some fundamental principles, and often […]

When you filter out the noise, when you try to extract the core, the fundamentals, those ‘universal rules’ of change […]

Culture is the new workplace If you want to have a conversation about the future of work, the nature of […]

When we started to work on Viral Change™, as a way to create large scale behavioural and cultural change, and […]

We talk a lot about silos in organizations usually in the context of Business Units or divisions. But these are not […]

Peer-to-peer works, transversal, spontaneous or not, collaboration, peer-to-peer influence, peer-to-peer activities of Viral Change™ champions or activists, all of this is […]

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 […]