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  Daily Thoughts

November 2nd, 2015

When the organization goes into permanent rehearsal mode, learns to rehearse, not to perform.

We spent more time on preparing for doing than in doing. That would be good if we were just talking […]

November 1st, 2015

The management party (not that kind of party). Don’t stop the music

‘Management’ is like a cocktail party. Some people may get a little bit excited; others certainly drink too much, talk […]

October 31st, 2015

‘New people bring in new ideas’. Keep it as a hypothesis

How many times I’ve seen in my clients the high expectations about new people. Not just the new hires but […]

October 30th, 2015

Corporate tribes, intellectual ghettos, and open windows policies

We talk a lot about silos in organizations usually in the context of Business Units of divisions. But these are […]

October 29th, 2015

4 types of generosity in the workplace. 2 with epidemic potential.

Four types: The generosity of the traffic light. Every fixed interval, it let’s you get through. Even it changes colours […]

October 28th, 2015

May I introduce you to our worse enemy? The word average

Random thoughts: People content with average achievements in the market, launch a party when the statistics show a few points […]

October 27th, 2015

Has employee engagement undergone moral surgery?

No matter how disguised, how avoided, how much of other language used, Employee Engagement as a topic assumes an input/output […]

October 26th, 2015

10 ways to fool everybody as an organization expert. They guarantee some attention and all have been tried and tested, somewhere.

These 10 positions provide organizational solutions with guarantee of some good reception. All of them are ‘possible’. If you want […]

October 25th, 2015

All thoughts come out of silence. Leadership development may turn out to be free after all.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things a leader has to do is to be mindful of his/her own thinking. […]

October 24th, 2015

Trust in 3 models. Trust me, it’s simple

There are three major sources of trust generation. Everything else is commentary: The ‘keep promises’. I can rely on you, […]

October 23rd, 2015

FAQs to myself (about organizational life)

In my work as Organization Architect, I deal with clients of many sizes, shapes and colours over the years. I […]

October 22nd, 2015

The Leader with Seven Faces. A model of leadership that requires a mirror.

As far back as 2006, it feels like a century, I developed a frame of Leadership that could help understand […]

October 21st, 2015

The ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ school of Change Management.

Amongst the beautiful poems that Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) wrote, I have always found some which could go straight to […]

October 20th, 2015

The 6 stages of Management Teams. The Origin and Evolution of these Species in one page.

Stage 1: The Accidental Management team. The team is composed by whoever reports to the top. You are in that […]

October 19th, 2015

From political movements to innovation in the company, stuff happens in the fringes, whilst the core feels tired.

A little epidemic of ex-fringe and peripheral organizations, views and people is going on around us. I use ‘fringe’ and […]

October 18th, 2015

From Values to Non-negotiable Behaviours. Continuing the reframing of the company steering system. (3 of 5)

The trouble with value systems is that, very often, they have no proper translation into pragmatic and visible expectations that […]

October 18th, 2015

‘Homeland’ fiasco lesson for my friends in Corporate Communications.

The facts: the American TV series ‘Homeland’ has reached its fifth season , starting staged in a Syrian refugee camp […]

October 17th, 2015

The Organizational Logic: the basic people algorithms that steer the navigation. Reframing the company steering system. (2 of 5)

The previous Daily Thoughts introduced the formula: (1) Space in the World (Purpose) + (2) Core Beliefs + (3) Non […]

October 17th, 2015

An obligatory Chemistry lesson for leaders. AKA thermostat management.

We often use the term ‘chemistry’ as something that you need to have, between people, for example, or something that […]

October 16th, 2015

10 reasons why you should retire ‘Passion’ from your value system

Passion is an emotion, or set of emotions. You may want, indeed, that your people are passionate, but you can’t […]