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Let me elevate the question of ‘differentiation’ to a higher level. Product differentiation? Sure. How different is different? That is […]
Somewhere along the line, in the history of ‘business’, something went wrong and people took the wrong turn at the […]
Our managerial training and praxis has been quite successful at making us guilty of not focusing enough on a task […]
Despite being repeated a thousand times, hiring processes are still quite imperfect. Of course, there are many places in which […]
‘Continuous improvement’ is part of the management furniture and something that, at face value, one could not disagree with. But […]
Complacency is always a risk, more so when we profess to be immune to it. Sometimes, achieving organizational and business […]
Continuing the conversation on leadership. Yes, we could go forever. Let me make an assumption: that miraculously you’ll have some […]
The modern organization is fluid. People are not necessarily assigned to one place, one team, even one single role. The […]
Collaboration is behavioural, not a process or system. As a behaviour, it can’t be taught. It’s something that some people […]
For CEOs, CFOs, CHROs, and other Cs, and Divisional Ds’, survey after survey try to identify their focus, their concerns, […]
Leadership is a term that describes a relationship. No relationship, no leadership. Leadership can only be defined in terms of […]
Corporate speak is of course tribal. So, to belong, you have to speak the tribal idiom. Through my work, I […]
Nothing is more rewarding than having a CEO who says world-changing things in the news and who produces bold, enlightened […]
Corporate storytelling has been largely dominated by heroic stories, referring to extraordinary circumstances, handled by extraordinary people. They make for […]
‘Walk the talk’ is being consistent: say something and then do what you said you would. ‘Talk the walk’ is […]
Any label that could be equally applied to Mother Theresa, Hitler, your CEO, Kim Jong-un, Mandela, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and […]
The British retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) has ‘Plan A’ as the title of their vast corporate and social responsibility […]
If you followed the two previous Daily Thoughts, you would have got into the idea of ‘Managing by Segmenting Around’. […]
Exercise: take a piece of paper and put names next to each category. Use your organization or an organization you […]
These 8, self-explanatory categories of people are the natural focus of traditional HR and management systems . They are needed […]
