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April 4th, 2019

Employee Engagement week ( and debunking) continues. (3/7): The Happy Cows model

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

April 3rd, 2019

Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement (2/7): Giving employees a voice. So, now we have a choir. And then what?

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

April 2nd, 2019

Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of Emperors with No Clothes. (1/7) The six models

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

March 26th, 2019

Individualism and collaboration are contagious. This is no news, but some experiments may explain how

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

March 25th, 2019

‘Oops! Sorry! I got this wrong’. Share mistakes to increase collaboration.

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

March 22nd, 2019

There is really only one measure of the attractiveness of the organization you lead

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

March 21st, 2019

The Zeus strategy: de-aggregating the problem

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

March 20th, 2019

Leave your sandals at the door

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

March 15th, 2019

‘Getting out of the way’ as a leadership strategy

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

March 14th, 2019

If the business is the mission, culture is the strategy

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

March 11th, 2019

If I were the CEO’s speechwriter for a day, this I will say

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

March 7th, 2019

‘If’ the management poem. c2019

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

March 5th, 2019

Culture is what happens when compliance leaves the room

The unwritten rules of the organization tell you more about its culture than all powerpoionts of its leadership programmes. The […]

February 28th, 2019

The intensity of the discussion is often inversely correlated with the importance of the issue

There are many versions of the same principle. We spend disproportionate amounts of time on issues. We often have deep […]

February 26th, 2019

Company culture is the fabric, the tapestry. David Brook’s wants to find all the weavers (tejedores, tisseurs…)

David Brooks, columnist of the New York Times and author (too conservative for the liberals and too liberal for the […]

February 25th, 2019

Forgot to ask what motivates you (but we all people are the same, anyway)

Organizational life can go on, driven by management, without asking people about their motivations. These are assumed in a rather […]

February 20th, 2019

15 random organizational irritations and inconvenient truths

Bottom-up is not more (of the same) workshops but at the bottom of the organization. Changing the geography of top-down […]

February 19th, 2019

‘But, how many people need to change for a culture to change?’

The ‘critical mass’ concept, as the number of people required to move forward, to change collective behaviours, to see a […]

February 18th, 2019

The Free Rider Problem in organizations

The Free Rider problem is studied in social sciences and refers to people who benefit from a collective (mainly public) […]

February 15th, 2019

The obvious but overlooked fact that connectivity and collaboration are not always good.

Increasing the connectivity of people, who will benefit from enhanced collaboration ,to achieve good things better, faster, differently, is a […]