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David Brooks, columnist of the New York Times and author (too conservative for the liberals and too liberal for the […]
Organizational life can go on, driven by management, without asking people about their motivations. These are assumed in a rather […]
Bottom-up is not more (of the same) workshops but at the bottom of the organization. Changing the geography of top-down […]
The ‘critical mass’ concept, as the number of people required to move forward, to change collective behaviours, to see a […]
The Free Rider problem is studied in social sciences and refers to people who benefit from a collective (mainly public) […]
Increasing the connectivity of people, who will benefit from enhanced collaboration ,to achieve good things better, faster, differently, is a […]
I don’t know where this comes from but it’s in posts and posters all over. It’s perhaps one of these […]
People reading these Daily Thoughts may be used to common themes, indeed. After all, I am not writing about nuclear […]
And employee characters, and company culture, and all the unwritten rules of the organization are shaped in the cafeteria, the […]
The process of creativity can be very messy. In fact, it is perhaps necessarily messy. Like the artist’s workshop. The […]
Given our growing impatience and limited attention span (our minds are overheated in the filtering of information, like traffic control […]
Possibility is perhaps the most beautiful word in management. There are organizations in which possibilities seem exhausted, work is an […]
Suddenly purpose is back. We are told that Millennials want purpose. Which may be true. As much as many other […]
Attention Chief Transformation Officers, Offices of Transformation, Change Management Units, and Change Offices, and Projects of Future A,B,C,. Units of […]
The full quote: ‘Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to […]
Yesterday, my wife and I said goodbye to a good friend from France who works as a high level executive […]
Wisdom Nomads go form meeting to meeting. ‘We need to make sure that’, ‘we have to know how this fits […]
Behavioural change is still presented in many quarters with the same language as installing a piece of software. Or maybe […]
Most of our organizational problems are behavioural Structural answers hardly solve behavioural problems. Amalgamating A and B because A and […]
I was used to the concept of catastrophic failure, but not catastrophic success, until I read an article in the […]
