Years ago, I persuaded a pharmaceutical client to make three bold moves in one: (1)   To create a New Product […]

The old tale of ‘Boiling Frogs’ says that there are too basic ways to boil a frog. One, the frog […]

Banks have had stress tests (imposed) to see how they would cope with difficult market conditions. For example, in the […]

In the previous Daily Thought I shared the simple idea that change management approaches often miss a big elephant in the […]

The change management industry has traditionally missed a big elephant in the room: in times of change, what is actually […]

One of my favourite sets of Team Rules. Real life. Not invented. One of my best clients. Always curious No […]

We often hear the need to put some order in Division A, or to restructure X and Y by putting […]

Probably we will not go back to the telegraph, but when everything is ‘innovatively disrupted’, where will we go? At […]

Organizational performance is unique. Cut and paste does not work. You need to find your own formula. Good to hear […]

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 […]