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  Daily Thoughts

December 7th, 2016

This time it’s personal, actually.

A fairly constant finding in political science experimentation (and this is a rich field completely neglected by traditional HR/OD in […]
December 6th, 2016

My soft stuff/test results: 3 Plus, 3 Minus, 3 Grr!

I have found myself in full philosophical mode, taking stock. End of year I suppose. This is like a blood […]
December 5th, 2016

Bonkers is the new black. New management ideas for the NHS are that kind of black.

According to The Telegraph, Mr Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary of Her Majesty’s British Government has declared that doctors and nurses […]
December 4th, 2016

Preach your values all the time, when necessary use words

This is plagiarism, of course. I am stealing 13th Century saint, Francis of Assisi’s  line: ‘Preach the Gospel all the […]
December 2nd, 2016

Five spaces that the organizational leader needs to design and nurture

What about the leader as a designer of spaces, a social architect that creates places (physical) and spaces? Not hard […]
December 1st, 2016

The Self-Induced Complexity Kingdom (SICK) in organizations looks sometimes like a conspiracy

We all live and work in bureaucratic organizations. The differences between us is the dose. In today’s world, bureaucracy is […]
November 28th, 2016

The ‘quick win-win’ theory, and tactics, often lead to people being put off quickly

One of the most conventionally accepted theories of change, perhaps better called ‘tactics of change’, says that it is important […]
November 27th, 2016

‘If there are no nurses, I don’t want to be part of your revolution’

This is Rule number 13 of the just published, new book ‘Rules for Revolutionaries- how Big Organizing can change everything’, […]
November 26th, 2016

What about a little epidemic of generosity in our organizations?

From all human qualities and types of character, from all human values and personality traits, from so many character-istics of […]
November 25th, 2016

A tsunami of navel-gazing, force 11, is impacting business, society and politics. And individual identity.

I don’t like to sound gloomy. But, is the current self-centrism an epidemic of colossal proportions? Or, another way to […]
November 24th, 2016

Leadership scaffolding. Let’s try this mental model

Leadership can be taught, of course, but not in the same way as teaching how to drive a car or […]
November 23rd, 2016

Three Daily Thoughts for a quick catch up and reflection

Hi there! There is a pause in Daily Thoughts today, but here are three you may have missed that we […]
November 22nd, 2016

No more change please, we need change-ability.

‘Lasting capacity’ must be a keyword for change management and its methods. The issue today is less about how to […]
November 21st, 2016

Sustainable? Competitive advantage or disadvantage?

There was a time, not long ago, when people got fed up with ‘change programmes’ that faded at the speed […]
November 20th, 2016

Here is the good news: good values, translated into behaviours, are contagious.

How do you make values live? Install them in a culture? Model 1: You preach them and preach them, and […]
November 17th, 2016

Your mental frame, as defined by words, will dictate your actions. Even your values. Words are dictators.

The purpose of the organization is… The objectives of the strategy are… The reason why we have restructured is… From […]
November 15th, 2016

Wicked Problems? Bad news. Prevent.

This is my list of characteristics of a Wicked Problem. The term was first described  by Rittel and Webber in […]
November 14th, 2016

‘Agency’ won the US election. Leaders of all sorts, politics and not, take note.

“Agency’ is the word used in social sciences to refer to the ability of an individual to act and make […]
November 13th, 2016

The birth of Behavioural Politics? (And Big Data has gone to the doctor for a check up).

What is happening in politics is the equivalent of what has happened to Economics years ago. Economics was based on […]
November 11th, 2016

The answer to Trumpism: get involved, call out the in-human, the non-truth. Start inside the organization.

When I first read Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ a long time ago, I was impacted by a little paragraph […]