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Jerry B Harvey’s 1974 article “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement’, contains this vignette. On a hot afternoon visiting […]
The modern organization is fluid. People are not necessarily assigned to one place, one team, even one single role. The […]
In my dealing with organizations of many sizes and shapes, cultures and geographies, I always find very fine individuals of […]
We have a phenomenal challenge in France. Our people there ‘don’t get the values’, are very cynical and, to make […]
There is an anecdote in a recent piece by Noemi Klein’s in The Guardian. A young girl had some kind […]
The prestigious publication ‘The Economist’ has published an article under the title ‘Team spirit. Businesses are embracing the idea of […]
In his 2003 book ‘The Audacity of Hope’, Barack Obama wrote: ‘I serve as a blank screen on which people […]
‘Recruiters spend 6 seconds evaluating individual online resumes/CVs’ That’s it. Six. The self-reporting by recruiters indicated 4-5 minutes, but using […]
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, software millionaire, has discovered mindfulness. And has installed ‘mindfulness rooms’ in the Salesfore building in […]
We often tend to mistake these in organizations Trends: See, hear and feel what is going on, and find patterns […]
Experiment. Not kidding. Once upon a time ‘experimenting’ was something that only scientists did. Most people would associate the word […]
The old tale of ‘Boiling Frogs’ says that there are too basic ways to boil a frog. One, the frog […]
The Biblical ‘the truth will set you free’ should be engraved in corporate walls, next to the values. And in […]
‘Continuous improvement’ is part of the management furniture and something that, at a face value, one could not disagree with. […]
Yes to all. All of the above. Who could disagree? Certainly not the leadership development sub-industry. We want the good […]
I have had today the privilege of meeting Dr Kate Granger, founder of the #hellomynameis campaign, and a terminally ill […]
Warning: This statement will be dismissed But, before you do that, I’d ask you to consider the differences between ‘organizational-business […]
In caricature, this is a 3 point strategy to develop further. It’s a simple mental and practical frame. Build an […]
Ah, the customer is back, some people in management and consulting say, as if the customer had been in a […]
Although our work on large scale behavioural change in organizations started the same day that The Chalfont Project company was […]
