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We are pulled to conform to the group, to participate, to contribute, to say something. Nodding is not enough. Taking […]
I am (in) IT, I work for X (company) I work for X (company), I am in IT These are […]
I trust you because I can say ‘I haven’t got a clue’ and you don’t think I am an idiot […]
This is plagiarism, of course. I am stealing 13th Century Saint, Francis of Assisi’s line: ‘Preach the Gospel all the […]
Let’s start somewhere else. What is the logic behind Listmania? Very often there isn’t one. But starting a note/blog/communication with […]
There is no such thing as kindness. Unless, and until, somebody does something to another human being who can feel […]
I read a while ago this story. Within the highly structured and hierarchical (by design) Catholic church, a Religious Order […]
In my world, ‘corporate’ is synonymous with big structure, big processes and big systems. Of course, it is not its […]
Nassim Taleb’s piece in Medium some time ago entitled The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority is one […]
Accustomed as we are to creating plans to succeed on something, this may sound counterintuitive. Creating (serious) plans for failure […]
Pope Francis, spiritual leader to 1.2 billion people, likes ‘to call a cat a cat’. He has gained a world […]
I said in yesterday’s Daily Thought that we needed to grab the (management) Paradox of Control. The more we lose […]
The more ‘command-and-control’ you practice, the less control you actually have and the more you’ll need to command. In today’s […]
THIS THURSDAY – don’t miss our final live webinar in the ‘A Better Way’ series, when Mark Storm and I […]
Imagine this goal. Let’s shift from 30 people making a decision in 30 days, to 3 people making the same […]
It is perhaps the Age of Inversion. The weights have gone the other way. Globalisation, big G, or small g, […]
These are commonly found uses of the expression ‘they’ within organizations. They won’t approve this They don’t get it They […]
People in organizations spend a lot of time representing somebody else or something else. It feels sometimes that the company […]
Strong thinking and strong ideas are great. We need people to defend them, champion them and feel passionate about them. […]
The trouble with the talking about leadership is that we have made a big basket of it and thrown in […]
