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October 7th, 2014

(2/5) A brief history of Mind Digging. The precursors of the current Neuro-worship and Neurobable. From Psycho-explanations to Neuro-explanations.

Each period of history has its own ‘Theory of Everything’.  Psychoanalysis occupied that space for a long time in the […]
October 6th, 2014

(1/5) Neurobable has discovered business. God help us! The current fascination with the Neuro-Anything, worries me.

Is the Brain-worship that we see nowadays in our business arena the new Psychoanalysis? Is the Neuro-explanation of everything, from […]
October 5th, 2014

Built to what?

You may remember the hype around the Collins and Porras book ‘Built to Last’ (1994), a great business book which […]
October 4th, 2014

The One secret of Warren Buffet (tip: it’s not a financial simulation or forecasting software)

There is a tradition of looking into the secrets of successful people such as Warren Buffet. In his case, there […]
October 3rd, 2014

‘Democratic organization’ means well, but it is an unfortunate term.

With the best of intentions, to call an organization a Democracy is an abuse of the term, unless of course, […]
October 2nd, 2014

The books I leave behind in airplanes.

I have lots of books. I have a big library. I am running out of space. I am on a […]
October 1st, 2014

Have as much holidays as you want (just make sure you don’t miss anything)

Sir (and St.) Richard Branson has done his ritual ‘innovative thing’ again, and the press (is it mainly the Anglo-Saxon […]
September 30th, 2014

Innovation? Great, but I am not in charge of it!

Years ago I was talking to a client, a Senior VP in the company, about a project that had to […]
September 29th, 2014

Getting things done: ‘Relationships’ vs. ‘Structures’

A while ago, a telecom client complained to me about his particular division which seemed to work entirely ‘on relationships’. […]
September 26th, 2014

‘Daily Thoughts’ is back on Monday 29th of September at 08:00 GMT+1/BST

Some titles in store, coming to you: Half of the words in  ‘Change Management’ are redundant. Which one you delete […]
August 28th, 2014

I am on leave for a little while

Dear member of the community: I am taking a break to have some personal time. I’ll be back soon. In […]
August 27th, 2014

More on the manager-leader balancing act

I’m on holiday for a few days. Re posting a piece than attracted interesting discussions within a group pf clients. […]
August 26th, 2014

We always have some sort of ‘strategy’. The question is which level, and, does it do what we intend?

I am still on holiday for a few more days I  was asked awhile ago to re-post this little frame […]
August 25th, 2014

Back to Employee Engagement. All the models in one summary, by popular demand

I am on holidays for a few days I am been asked by many to re- publish my six models […]
August 24th, 2014

Time to look at the organization sideways

I am on vacation for just  a few days. I am reviewing past Daily Thoughts and grouping them Take a […]
August 23rd, 2014

I reorganise, ergo sum

I’m taking a break for a short period. Here is an excerpt from my book Homo Imitans A reorganisation has […]
August 22nd, 2014

Choosing what to lose

  “We’ve lost money, we’ve lost nothing We’ve lost honour, we’ve lost a lot We’ve lost confidence, we’ve lost everything? […]
August 21st, 2014

The un-reachable workforce. What NGOs with remote operations teach us about organising work.

Many years ago, I learnt from the UNHCR, the UN refugee Agency based in Denmark, that, many global NGOs of […]
August 20th, 2014

Is this not happening in organizations all the time?

“It was autumn, and the Indians on the reservation asked their new chief if it was going to be a […]
August 19th, 2014

“I am a captain. We are on a collision course.” 2

This is a great history of focus, determination, appeal to progressive levels of authority and some other things. We leaders […]