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It is unrealistic to expect upside down disruptive innovation in any business. But the absence of disruptive thinking may be […]
Jerry B Harvey’s 1974 article “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement’, contains this vignette. On a hot afternoon visiting […]
With some exceptions, there is no such a thing as single, global, monolithic corporate culture. There is usually a confederation […]
1. Postpone. Some great killers postpone everything. They don’t even have to use the language, they simply organise things in […]
Henry Ford said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ‘Faster horses strategies’ […]
Leadership has traditional sources of learning, reflection, role modelling and a ‘body of knowledge’. There are four that dominate. This […]
It’s impossible to listen in a noisy room. If you want to listen to your breathing, you need silence. You […]
Emotional Intelligence was a paragraph-length concept expressed in a library of publications. At the time it was a shock in […]
William Stafford’s (1914 – 1993) poem reads: The things you do not have to say make you rich, Saying the […]
‘A year from now, you are all here standing in front of the CEO and you say: we screwed up! […]
Powerful oversimplifications’ was the term used by Bruce Henderson, founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to define the matrixes, […]
Our traditional management education has almost 100% focused on the formal organization, the structural fabric of teams, divisions, groups, committees […]
Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that […]
In caricature, this is a 3 point strategy to develop further. It’s a simple mental and practical frame. Build an […]
10 key behavioural competences of people to understand what is going on. Small sample of my collection. These are 10 […]
Each large or not that large organization needs one. This tribe is composed of people who have a natural ability […]
Organizations need a Rapid Reaction Force. OK, unless you are in the military, it does not mean military fatigue uniforms […]
Some people in organizations believe that they are working in a very bureaucratic, hierarchical, political and rigid environment. Many of […]
From time to time you see the occasional and mostly not very solid comparisons between ‘the company’ and a religion. […]
‘Social Change’ is no longer alien to Executive and Leadership Development. These are social and ‘at scale’ or are not fit for this century.
Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]