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Management Theory (if there is one) and management practice are not physics. We don’t have very solid data about what […]
In most organizations there is a certain dose of ambiguity: accountabilities not completely clear, some overlapping of responsibilities, dynamic tensions […]
There is evidence, intelligently articulated by Phil Rosenzweig in 2007 (The Halo Effect), that a series of measures of employee […]
It’s a new world out there. You’ll realize this truth if you open the windows of your organization and let […]
In the previous Daily Thoughts posting, I said that successful growth contains the seeds of its failure. Managing the organizational […]
Organizations grow in many ways: organically and quietly, organically and exponentially, by acquisitions or mergers etc. In every step of […]
I said in the first part of this Daily Thought that we needed to grab the (management) Paradox of Control. […]
From my Disruptive Ideas book and Accelerator, I’d like to bring this one to the table as a follow up […]
If somebody would care to quantify the cost of constantly checking with people whether they are doing what they are […]
It’s called the Shirky principle, after Clay Shirky, prolific American author of bestsellers such as ‘Here comes everybody’(2008) and ‘Cognitive […]
I heard this as a true statement attributed to a Japanese executive in a corporate meeting. Apparently this person had […]
When I did my MBA, many moons ago, I had to go through lots of case studies. What else? I […]
The old view of the organization is something close to the old concept of a medieval city, where citizenship was […]
‘Discovering’ an old article that I wrote years ago, when I used to have a management column in a monthly […]
I am delighted that a McKinsey article on ‘change’ in October 2014 (‘Build a change platform, not a change program’) […]
I have explored this theme before in my Daily Thoughts (June 4th) but I feel compelled to go back! Behavioural […]
There’s something to keep in mind when trying to create a disruptive change: Most such attempts fail, and when one […]
‘Prioritize’ is a word that I particularly dislike because it is overused and misused in a terrible way. I have […]
Reflective leadership has gone into progressive short supply. In an era where prescriptive answers seem to dominate reflective ones, it […]
I was told sometime, somewhere, by somebody (you can see the strength of my recollection), and then found this again […]
