This is the last one in the series  of 10 Organizational Pathologies, and the longest write up. Sorry! Bear with […]

Attributed to Peter Drucker, we have inherited the ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. Drucker meant that you need […]

Almost there, two to go. I have posted one pathology per day (see the website) Busy-ness! From all organizational pathologies […]

Over inclusiveness paralysis occurs as a side effect of good intentions. The intentions are usually democratic, egalitarian, based on respect […]

Processes are supposed to provide these three  things A sure and presumably tested path to address repetitive situations, so that […]

‘Postponing’ (AKA as procrastination) maybe healthy and reasonable, maybe not. Cultures are created by behaviours. The best predictors of behaviours […]

In medicine, autoimmune disease is one in which ‘the body produces antibodies that attack its own tissues, leading to the deterioration […]

Hierarchy is dead, proclaim people in the advanced, enlightened, guru-read organization. Hierarchy is bad, ugly, cause of all problems, constraining, […]

Communicate, communicate, communicate, we were told. All the problems go back to communication. This is your default culprit. In doubt, […]

Solutionism  is a common condition in which the energy and airtime of the organization is consumed in finding solutions to […]

I shared yesterday three types of employees I want for the modern organization. Different characters on the payroll. If there […]

My ideal modern organization has different characters on the payroll. If there is a payroll. These are three of them […]

Please pray for the soul of incrementalism that, after a long and slow incremental illness, left us for good. After […]

I have never found a client that says we don’t need evidence, or data, or facts, or hard measures. Most […]

I’ve learnt recently  a new Mckinsean acronym: MECE (Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive). Meaning, you break ‘it’ all down  in (Mutually […]

Ok, so you are back. I shared yesterday 5 shifts. Here are the other 5. As I said yesterday, Viral […]

  Ok, if you insist, here it is. Commercial or not, it’s also true. I need to share with you […]

Ryan Holiday (media critic, stoicism vendor, marketing strategist) is ‘the best-selling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a […]

Have you seen those videos, or TV interviews, or programmes, in which there is a disconnect between what the person […]

I must say I am getting very frustrated to see more and more companies which  workforce seems to function as […]