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 […]

Societal issues, clash of ideologies, fundamentalism, political engagement (or lack of it), organizational innovation, Leadership 2020, no matter what direction […]

I have seen the same slide yet again. It keeps following me on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. OK, not on […]

Reinventing management to deal with the complexities of the world and, therefore, the complexities of business challenges is something that, […]