It has been an intense year in many aspects. I am grateful to clients and friends, and above all my […]

This is a straight quote from Nassim Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile) A private library is not an […]

Flat organizations, part of the Pancake Revolution (got the patent pending) that we have gone through, trimming management layers and […]

The phrase is from John Lennon who stole it from TS Elliott (‘amateur poets borrow; mature poets steal’). There are […]

Hardly a question I can answer with statistics, but I would tend to agree. This good article points in that […]

I must have heard this for the first time from Tom Peters many years ago. He was, and he is, […]

  Donald Winnicott (1896- 1971) was a brilliant British psychoanalyst. And you won’t find many instances of my praising psychoanalysis, […]

In the old days of medical school and psychiatric training we used to say that schizophrenia was a secret society […]

In preparation for Santa, I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in the organizational life: a 10 point […]

Some organizations want agility, entrepreneurship, great innovation and superb customer centrism. But they are operating with structures, processes and behaviours […]

The Visitor is a full time member of a project team. He arrives late, very late. Smiles a lot. Takes […]

So some organizations cook very, very large ones. No, this is not a gastronomic blog. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, said […]

This is of course not something every mortal is privileged to do: to make ‘work’ an exciting, fulfilling and meaningful […]

I have recorded this for an HR and Communications conference that I could not attend. This is a good recent […]

There is a moment in the life of our kids in which they start questioning the story of Santa coming […]

Project management is a state of mind, not a software. But if you have both, it helps. Some people have […]

Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look […]

Happy Weekend Daily Thoughts Subscribers! Here is a compilation of 3 of some our latest posts – all with the […]

This piece of conventional wisdom is almost never true. That ‘they were ready’ is very often the a posterity rationalization. […]

I said yesterday that large scale mobilization of people (AKA social movements, AKA company culture) needs a platform. They don’t […]