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An old patient was concerned about her hair. A nurse came in at 7 am to put colour in her […]
One of us or one of them. Liberal or conservative. Top down or bottom up. Progressive or retrograde. Robust or […]
Heraclitus (535 BCE) was probably the father of change management. Two quotes: ‘There is nothing permanent except change’. ‘No man ever […]
Years ago, I persuaded a pharmaceutical client to make three bold moves in one: (1) To create a New Product […]
The old tale of ‘Boiling Frogs’ says that there are too basic ways to boil a frog. One, the frog […]
Banks have had stress tests (imposed) to see how they would cope with difficult market conditions. For example, in the […]
In the previous Daily Thought I shared the simple idea that change management approaches often miss a big elephant in the […]
The change management industry has traditionally missed a big elephant in the room: in times of change, what is actually […]
One of my favourite sets of Team Rules. Real life. Not invented. One of my best clients. Always curious No […]
We often hear the need to put some order in Division A, or to restructure X and Y by putting […]
Probably we will not go back to the telegraph, but when everything is ‘innovatively disrupted’, where will we go? At […]
Organizational performance is unique. Cut and paste does not work. You need to find your own formula. Good to hear […]
In the old Greek tragedies, when the plot became an unsolvable mess, a God (or few of them) came down […]
A publication I once received around the Mighty Davos meeting portrays the views of five expert academics on the topic […]
I had a discussion with a client recently, about the resistance to get rid of complicated processes that almost everybody […]
I got this insight from one of our Viral Change clients in the health care sector. We were talking about […]
We have been exploring briefly in the last days the Steering system of the company under the formula: (1) Space […]
The trouble with value systems is that, very often, they have no proper translation into pragmatic and visible expectations that […]
Yesterday’s Daily Thought introduced the formula: (1) Space in the World (Purpose) + (2) Core Beliefs + (3) Non negotiable Behaviours […]
Many companies operate under some sort of ‘Mission and Vision’ framework, often also accompanied, or preceded, by a statement of […]
