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The fastest and best way to build a creative culture is to have lots of creative people together. No kidding. […]
Any organization has accountability holes, areas where nobody really owns the space. Sometimes these are true ‘grey areas’, sometimes are […]
Perhaps the best we can do for the next generations is to understand their dreams. They are not the same […]
We need teaming up, but we may not need more teams. We need role-modelling but may not need to call […]
Let’s revisit re-framing techniques. I covered this in a previous Daily Thought but still relevant today. Take a look at […]
It’s 2019 – I wanted to revisit this from 2018 – are corporations developing, evolving, transforming, adapting….? And old sticker […]
A simple exercise that leaders can do, either on their own with paper and pen, or with their management team, […]
A ‘Daily Thought’ taken from one of my Leadership series’. Gold leadership, is the one above silver and bronze, that’s […]
One of the key rules of activism (social, political, cause) is not to spend more than the minimum necessary time […]
Something for the weekend. Written back in 2017 but still rings true today! We naturally retreat to comfort zones. If […]
Another important idea (first published in 2016) worth revisiting. Enjoy! You can’t inject happiness in the organization. You can’t put […]
A previously posted Daily Thought – well-worth revisiting. John Le Carre, British ex secret intelligence serviceman, espionage writer, dixit. He […]
The formidable Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy (who declares that has ‘an attractively vague job title which has allowed […]
On one side, taxes are good, big government, social welfare, fighting for social justice and social mobility, human rights, women […]
Standard Operating Procedures, strategy documents, all normal process and systems and the organization chart are the headlines. If you really […]
It is counterintuitive to managers but not to cognitive scientists. Given airtime to an issue is not always a good […]
A few days ago, I went to a conference. It’s unusual for me these days because I have close to […]
The Good Mechanics of Continuous Improvement have given us a culture of feed-back. Feed back is worshiped. There is a […]
Sorry for the medicalization, an annoying legacy in my brain from many years of diagnosing and prescribing. Unlike many other […]
It’s terrifying. You are in front of an inquisitorial crowd, maybe your own people, and have to say, I don’t […]
