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1. These 9 features (below) define a good manager in Google. 2. You have Google as a model company ( […]
There is a difference between listening and just waiting to speak. You can spot people doing either. Some people don’t […]
Innovation and renewal requires your windows open to the world. Plenty of organizations out there are experimenting with models, far […]
The UK general election is in its final days. Even if you don’t live in the UK, what is happening […]
In any organization they are positive deviants (deviants from expected norms, who achieve results ) and other ‘statistical abnormalities’, by […]
Groupthink arrives when the group agrees with itself on everything, dismisses the external ones who disagree, ignores warnings, ignores facts, […]
A budget cut is a budget cut. Everybody recognises one when in front of one. Organizations don’t impose them just […]
‘Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop’. That was Lewis Carroll advice […]
Knowledge management was an idea hijacked by IT. When management of knowledge became buying the Mother of All Portals, and […]
In some organizations, daily life and the day to day meetings feel like a Permanent Focus Group. People spend their […]
The Business English language (yes, there is one) uses the word accountability often associated to the word ‘taking’, as in […]
Stanislaw Andreski ( 1919-2007) in his little big book ‘Social Science as Sorcery’, writing about the influence of the social […]
We offered a client unlimited support for a project, for a fixed cost. The clienr understood. Corporate Procurement didn’t. It […]
There was a time when the logic of things started with a why, followed with a what and ended in […]
We need to improve communication is not the same as this is what we need to do to improve communication, […]
The company is too big to change. We are too small to compete. It’s too early for a Leadership Development. […]
I have been asked many times to list them. Here they are: 1. There is no change unless it is […]
‘Powerful oversimplifications’ was the term used by Bruce Henderson, founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to define the matrixes, […]
I wrote before that if you have some doubts about some data, you just have to say that it comes […]
These are ‘functions’ and ‘structures’ in need of spaces in the organization. You may not be brave enough, or […]
