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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 […]
Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, […]
If you want to have a conversation about the future of work, the nature of work, the post-pandemic work, the […]
Welcome to my weekly focus on culture change, leadership and organizational design. This week, I focus on what culture is, […]
For those of you not yet familiar with the change. Daily Thoughts has evolved. New name and format. Rather than daily, I […]
Daily Thoughts has evolved. New name and format. Rather than daily, I will share with you a weekly focus on culture […]