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July 30th, 2018

Weekly Recap: Culture (part 1 of 3)

As Daily Thoughts is taking a short summer hiatus, this week we are sending you a few of our favourite […]

July 27th, 2018

Weekly Recap: Viral Change™ (part 3 of 3)

Here is this week’s final recap post looking at the Viral Change™ Mobilizing Platform. Have a great weekend! Networks have […]

July 26th, 2018

Weekly Recap: Viral Change™ (part 2 of 3)

Here is this week’s second “recap” post on the Viral Change™ Mobilizing Platform. Enjoy!   Change management is dead. Let’s […]

July 24th, 2018

Weekly Recap: Viral Change™ (part 1 of 3)

Dear Readers, Daily Thoughts is taking a short holiday! But never fear, over the next few weeks we will be […]

July 19th, 2018

The journey: for an Himalayan trip, trust a few good shepherds. Including your company Himalayans

Organizational transformation equals organizational life. Sometimes we add an adjective to signpost a direction. For example, digital transformation. Very often […]

July 18th, 2018

If work shapes our lives, should ‘management’ and ‘company’ have a bit of reboot?

In the old days of my parents, there was an unwritten consensus that your problems in life, your anxiety at […]

July 13th, 2018

There is a strong case to start reading a book backwards. And other rambling comments

Given our growing impatience and limited attention span (our minds are overheated in the filtering of information, like traffic control […]

July 12th, 2018

Management technique: the transplant

The answer to individual negativity is group positiveness.  Fighting individual negativity at individual level is a risky fight. If you […]

July 11th, 2018

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 […]

July 10th, 2018

Engage to flip. (2 of 3). A magic threshold of number of people to shape a company culture? It’s actually complicated.

(A similar version of this post was released out of sync with it;’s part 1. Apologies for those who got […]

July 9th, 2018

Engage to flip. (1 of 3). A magic threshold of number of people needed to shape a company culture? The headlines

A glitch in the system made the publication of part 2 of this out of sync and was sent last […]

July 4th, 2018

Team, the noun, the structure, or teaming up, the verb, the behaviour?

Teamocracy may be the worst form of people collaboration  except for all those other forms that have been tried from […]

July 3rd, 2018

Cooking and shopping are two different things. I wish some ‘change managers’ could distinguish

If you talk to my clients, they will tell you that I use cooking analogies all the time. Cook this, […]

July 2nd, 2018

Focus, focus! But only after un-focusing a lot

Our managerial training and praxis has been quite successful at making us guilty of not focusing enough on a task […]

June 28th, 2018

Change management models on sale.

Give me a sequence, some boxes, a template on steps, lots of arrows and a PowerPoint, and I will create […]

June 27th, 2018

How many people on your payroll have never licked a stamp?

Beloit College, in Wisconsin, creates every year a ‘Mindset List’ It shows a list of facts about a particular new […]

June 26th, 2018

Storytelling wins wars whilst everything else is fighting battles (and 3 of 3): event shocks coming to you, that may not feel like gifts.

In October 2013, a ship carrying migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. 300 people drowned. As The Guardian journalist Kenan […]

June 25th, 2018

Three magic questions for leaders

1. Will I regret not doing this? Bezos, Amazon chief. Here it is from a recent article: ‘When faced with […]

June 22nd, 2018

Storytelling wins wars whilst everybody else is fighting battles. (2 of 3): leaders of organizations, are you listening?

Friday 25 May, 2018. Ireland votes 66.4% in favour of repealing the Eight Amendment of its Constitution, inserted in 1983, […]

June 21st, 2018

Storytelling wins wars whilst everyybody else is fighting battles (1 of 3): the ingredients

Today we are in front of daily wars of narratives: political, social, models of the world, futures, concept of Man. […]