Space to reflect? Where is that? Are you saying we are not reflective? Don’t we have an intelligence? Are you […]

I know leaders who are obsessed with this: the systematic use of feed back between managers and staff, between people. […]

We are pulled to conform to the group, to participate, to contribute, to say something. Nodding is not enough. Taking […]

In this model, the employee (1) is an activist, (2) largely working peer-to-peer, and (3) progressing towards (if not arriving […]

Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]

This is model 4 of the series.  The concept is simple. Imagine that you, as an employee, are in reality an […]

(the series on Employee Engagement will continue later) Organizational dynamics are full of ‘default thinking’. We assume that some things […]

This is model 3 (but the 4th post, confusing!)  ‘The Cause’. Employees join forces to work on a Cause: green agenda, corporate […]

This is model 2 in the pack of 6 that I have described. There is a book, or two, and its […]

Model 1 of my 6 is what I call, ‘Air time’. It translates into: ‘we recognise that employees’ views are not properly […]

Over the next 7 days, we wanted to revist a series of posts from 2017, exploring the important topic of […]

In yet another experiment by Nicholas Christakis team (see previous Daily Thought on mistakes by robots!) they tested the power […]

Being open about mistakes, own mistakes, team mistakes, has always being considered a driver for trust. If I as leader […]

First published October 2018 If you love KPIs, here is one. The attractiveness of your (corporate) function is defined by […]

First published back in 2016 Plato told us in his Symposium that humans were originally androgynous, not men or women. […]

First published in November 2017. This is the request we make at the beginning of a Viral Change™ programme. Forget […]

First published September 2018 Also called get out of the room and don’t interfere. Also asking the question ‘may I […]

First published back in November 2018. If one thing has become clear after all these decades of management soul-searching for […]

Don’t look at us, at the leadership at the top. We are the wrong mirror. Of course, we are committed […]

Every year I review the version of this list and share with my community. Here is again, 2019 mode, with […]