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The job description is dead. It is replaced by a Lego box, no instructional manual and a map. Welcome to […]
More than 20 years ago, Jerry I. Porras and James C. Collins, wrote the bestseller ‘Built to Last, successful habits […]
Well known Conservative American columnist and writer David Brooks has written a piece in the New York Times entitled ‘I […]
The language of leadership is often plain and monotone. Used to explain slides and with a screen behind, leadership language […]
At some point of the organization’s growth, complexity kicks in. Before that threshold, you had two problems: managing growth and […]
Employee engagement efforts, ownership values and empowerment behaviours must meet at one point. It’s simple, not terribly controversial, based upon […]
After the third reorganisation and the fourth quality programme and the second change management initiative, the cry is loud: give […]
In my organizational consulting work, and in behavioural terms, I am very used to be told, and challenged, that there […]
We all have our share of ‘difficult people’. Conventional management of change has taught us that there is always going […]
There is business and, then, there is all that stuff about leadership and teambuilding. This seems to be the worldview […]
Perhaps because custumer focus was not enough, we created customer centrism. Apparently this is not enough and we now need […]
‘We are reorganising in Business Units to meet customer expectations’. Actually, not, no customer has called you to ask you […]
A report on the Future of Jobs by the World Economic Forum compares the skills priorities of 2015 with the […]
Sure, you need change at the top. You wish to see that the top leadership takes things seriously and that […]
That ‘big change requires big actions’ is the commonly held belief that is behind the majority of so-called ‘large interventions’ […]
Feeling trapped, is at the core of some aspects of one’s mental health, and also organizational distress. The deep awareness […]
What should employees be loyal to? Ask an average leader: to the company, of course. Loyalty may be disguised. It […]
No what it’s written in procedures but what is not written in those pages Not how people behave in meetings, […]
John Le Carre, British ex secret intelligence serviceman, espionage writer, dixit. He knows about danger, and apparently about the danger […]
Consoled only by having bought the book for £ 0.09 ( and £2.80 postage) in Amazon marketplace, the reality is […]