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  Daily Thoughts

September 2nd, 2017

Employee Engagement as morally imperative. (6/7) A forgotten model?

Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]
September 1st, 2017

In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire

Our faith in communication is enormous. Why? Perhaps because we know well the problems associated with the lack of communication. […]
August 31st, 2017

‘Nothing new under the sun’ ? Take off your sun glasses and stop the Valium

Often you see people in organizations disillusioned with changes, considering themselves survivors of  yet another reorg, getting on with the […]
August 30th, 2017

‘The Dunbar Number’ and ‘Mad Lean Numbers’: a question of the right critical mass of people to make things happen.

Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist and psychologist, Oxford professor, has formulated that 150 was the “cognitive limit to the number of […]
August 30th, 2017

If you want to increase employee engagement and employee satisfaction, increase your company performance (yes, the order is not a typo)

With the holidays coming to a close and everyone returning to ‘work mode’, here is a recent post on employee […]
August 28th, 2017

If you have anything to do with developing leaders don’t kid yourself. These ones had never gone, and one who didn’t want to be, is in.

It’s 2017. Business as selfish, self-centered, a-social, ‘it’s-all-about-money-sorry’, is gone. So many people say. ‘Old fashioned views, we have moved […]
August 27th, 2017

End of week Summary – some thoughts on behavioural change & culture

Happy Long Weekend to all our Readers This week we have decided to look at behaviour and culture, first with […]
August 26th, 2017

There must be a better way (I have good news)

There must be a better way than having 200 consultants landing in my company and doing the stuff for me, […]
August 25th, 2017

Innovation? Great, but I am not in charge of it!

Years ago I was talking to a client, a Senior VP in the company, about a project that had to […]
August 23rd, 2017

We need the aliens. Everybody needs aliens. Smart aliens who can ask questions and open Pandora boxes for us.

The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person […]
August 22nd, 2017

‘Jeff Bezos assures Amazon Employees that HR is working 100 Hours a week to address their complaints’ (that they are working 100 hours a week)

Whatever he had in mind, it was communicated in an incredibly poor way. The prize for messaging goes to Amazon […]
August 21st, 2017

If you needed to remember only one classification of people: ‘external and internal locus of control’

This is old Psychology lesson. ‘External locus of control’ translation: the problem is somewhere else, not me. It’s the environment, […]
August 18th, 2017

A behavioural epidemic can’t be fought from within. It needs a behavioural counter-epidemic to take over

I have explored this theme before in my Daily Thoughts, but I feel compelled to go back! Behavioural issues, whether […]
August 17th, 2017

“There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets”

What type are you? How our mental models work is part of the Minimal Introspection, something we tend to overlook, […]
August 16th, 2017

Iconic leadership: the illusion of copying a one off

Whilst the holidays roll on, here is a continuation of the leadership theme to consider before the summer is over  […]
August 15th, 2017

Last in my holiday readings. Here is the plot.

A glitch in the system yesterday meant there was a duplication in the Daily Thoughts posts.  Please accept our apologies […]
August 14th, 2017

The 3 Grand Ds (‘Direction, Discovery and Destiny’), have also their 3 little personal and powerful ‘d’ sisters.

Good Morning! The following article extends on our recent series on leadership this week, which we hope you enjoy In […]
August 11th, 2017

The best question is the one which has no answer

Good Morning!  Here is the last of our series of three on Leadership this week. Recently, I keep finding myself […]
August 10th, 2017

It takes only one question to know about your model of leadership (and there is always an alternative question, just in case)

Morning to you.  Here is our second post in a series of three on Leadership: Don’t define leadership for me. […]
August 9th, 2017

My contradictions are my friends, and they come with me as leader

We are revisiting leadership this week.  This is one of a series of 3.   We praise people because of […]