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In a large company, what do a leadership development, a culture change and a business integration programme typically have in […]
In yesterday’s Daily Thought I suggested that leadership competence-based systems may be better at providing a language than at creating […]
In Louis Gerstner’s autobiography as chairman of IBM from 1993 until 2002, he recalls the company’s use of a competency […]
When in the not too distant future, cultural digital archaeologists will dig into the remains of the legacy of sexual […]
If I were the one in charge of deciding the ‘person of the year’ for the front cover of Time […]
These are us, you and me. OK, apologies for calling you ordinary . But it’s not disrespectful. Believe me. It’s […]
This is my non-scientific classification of forms of ‘collective action’ (association and collaboration for a purpose, in general) and how […]
Big L, small l, legacy is the long term outcome of leadership. There will be legacy. You’re better off shaping […]
I had a discussion with a client recently, about the resistance to get rid of complicated processes that almost everybody […]
I am back with a favourite theme: hierarchies and power. The first law of organizational hierarchical power is my version […]
A social movement is not a bunch of people, even hundreds, or thousands, moving socially. A social movement needs a […]
An organization is super rich in leadership and becomes a Leadership Lab, a School of Leaders, if it has three […]
Know your strength and speak from that position. What is it? Knowledge? Expertise? Experience? Wisdom? Here are others: simplicity, communication, […]
Reorganisations often follow these phases: smell, gossip, announcement and implementation. The period between announcement and implementation is when most emotions […]
I often think that the standard ‘diversity and inclusion’ discourse that floats around companies is a bit superficial. It stops […]
Their worlds and the laws governing them are completely different. Coaching and most management and leadership (team) development are not […]
The language of behaviours in a corporate set up is often either bland or too ‘corporatized’, sounding artificial. Many of […]
One of us or one of them. Liberal or conservative. Top-down or bottom up. Progressive or retrograde. Robust or fragile. […]
Imagine you run a large organization confronted with a future-critical, one off, Big Strategic Decision. The consequences may be dramatic, […]
A strategy review and implementation meeting takes place months after a new strategy has been launched. All goes smooth until […]
