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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 […]
Please pray for the soul of incrementalism that, after a long and slow incremental illness, left us for good. After […]
The phrase is from John Lennon who stole it from TS Elliott ‘amateur poets borrow; mature poets steal’. There are […]
In some organizations, daily life and the day to day meetings feel like a Permanent Focus Group. People spend their […]
To continue on the theme of Purpose…after yesterday’s: Purpose is always in the basement Suddenly purpose is back. We […]
One’s true purpose is never finally decided. Like history, purpose is always found backwards and then edited. A little journey […]
If one thing has become clear after all these decades of management soul-searching for more or less universal truths, this […]
Paraphrasing (better, stealing from) American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) a corporate culture, or, I would say, a subculture that you […]
The description of some company cultures by their leaders may sound like a work of fiction by people inside. I […]
I have on several occasions presented my views on Employer Branding. The trouble with this area, is that it overlaps […]
Every morning in my neighbourhood there is a small window of time when traffic becomes chaotic, slow, painful and frustrating. […]
If I had a say in new roles for large organizations, I think I would establish this new Division: VP […]
The cost of authenticity, of being yourself, is zero. In theory, the cost of pretending you are somebody else is […]
