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  Daily Thoughts

March 5th, 2016

What is the ‘model of the world’ in this organization?

Paraphrasing ( better, stealing from) American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) a corporate culture, or, I would say, a subculture that […]
March 4th, 2016

My unlikely reflection on my unplanned stop at a Michelin star restaurant

When travelling today, I found myself, unexpectedly, a few minutes from a little known restaurant, part of a low key, […]
March 3rd, 2016

Thesaurus – based value and behaviours systems are meaningless, exhausted and cheap.

Let’s start somewhere else. What is the logic behind Listmania? Very often there isn’t one. But starting a note/blog/communication with […]
March 2nd, 2016

What am I building? The 21st Century leader says. Where am I going? Some leaders used to say.

There is a theme in many traditions that describes ‘the way’ as something that is not simply ’there’ but that […]
March 1st, 2016

Scale or not scale? This is the Shakespearean culture question.

Behavioural /cultural shaping in organizations does not scale up by simply the leaders having the right mindset and motivation. A […]
February 29th, 2016

Safe to talk, need to talk, must talk. Team meetings and airtime.

Leading a meeting for the purpose of building a team (on top of achieving some business goals) may include a […]
February 28th, 2016

When everything pushes forward, disruptive innovation may also entail going backwards

A short piece in The Guardian announces quietly that Mercedes Benz is replacing some robots with humans. Not the other […]
February 27th, 2016

All that must be spontaneous, must be engineered.

OK, at least you a reading. Thanks. The organization is a network. Networks have emergent properties. Translation: things come up […]
February 26th, 2016

‘Social Change’ is no longer alien to Executive and Leadership Development. These are social and ‘at scale’ or are not fit for this century.

Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]
February 25th, 2016

An alternative competence system for an alternative HR. Ignore at your peril.

10 key behavioural competences of people to understand what is going. Small sample of my collection. These are 10 type […]
February 24th, 2016

How can I think out of the box? I can’t find the door

Our box is incredibly sophisticated. It has the latest quality walls, sofas, working spaces and lots of meeting rooms. I […]
February 23rd, 2016

A culture of X is one where X is part of the normal conversation.

What is a normal conversation? Well, pick one or combinations: football, how the kids are doing, the pain of the […]
February 22nd, 2016

3 ways to use ‘Digital’ inside the organization. The trouble with wrong expectations.

Model 1. The technology, for example in the form of digital platforms such as Enterprise Social Networks, ESN (Yammer type) […]
February 21st, 2016

Leaders, Dealers and Dreamers.

Leaders. They drive the agenda, the agenda is not driving them. They drive the agenda even when other people think […]
February 20th, 2016

Possibly the most important tribe in the organization is The Brokers.

Each large or not that large organization needs one. This tribe is composed of people who have a natural ability […]
February 19th, 2016

The missing word in the famous Margaret Mead quote

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that […]
February 18th, 2016

If I were the CEO’s speechwriter for a day, this is the speech I would pass on.

Don’t look at us, at the leadership at the top. We are the wrong mirror. Of course, we are committed […]
February 16th, 2016

‘Joining a cause’, vs. ‘being employed’. Can you articulate the reason for your enterprise?

From time to time you see the occasional and mostly not very solid comparisons between ‘the company’ and a religion. […]
February 15th, 2016

Strong thinkers are critical thinkers. Critical thinking can be embedded in the culture.

Strong thinking and strong ideas are great. We need people to defend them, champion them and feel passionate about them. […]
February 14th, 2016

Reacting on spot, and responding in agility mode can be engineered and role-modelled.

Organizations need a Rapid Reaction Force. OK, unless you are in the military, it does not mean military fatigue uniforms […]