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  Daily Thoughts

May 30th, 2014

Heaven is empty of self-centered people

These were recent words of Pope Francis to the Italian bishops, apparently too preoccupied with their own careers and favours […]
May 29th, 2014

You must understand, we are a big company

I was told this story a long time ago.  A CEO of a large company gets a letter from a […]
May 28th, 2014

Nothing that requires to be pitched in an elevator, is worth pitching

I am sorry to disagree with the conventional wisdom about the ‘elevator pitch’ that says that one has to be […]
May 27th, 2014

Occupy the (corporate) streets

The traditional thinking about divisional and functional structures within organizations, which were born of the need for specialization and a […]
May 26th, 2014

Corporate culture as a social movement

Large scale mobilization and alignment of people, united through common goals yet everybody is in different and diverse roles with […]
May 25th, 2014

Intolerance, Diversity and Exclusion: It’s behavioural!

‘Diversity and Inclusion’ (D&I) is becoming a ‘policy’ that many Boards have decided to adopt. This is good. However, as […]
May 24th, 2014

Surprise!

Surprise is a powerful strategy in its own rights. Surprise means being ahead of the game, being further ahead than […]
May 23rd, 2014

A 6th Century Leadership Manual starts with the word ‘Listen!’

It’s impossible to listen in a noisy room.  If you want to listen to your breathing, you need silence. You […]
May 22nd, 2014

No milk, no honey, enjoy the journey

Moses’ leadership was bad. He promised his people a land of milk and honey. Instead, they got a terrible hike […]
May 21st, 2014

10 strategic options

These are the 10 strategic options you have at your disposal all the time, as I use them with my […]
May 20th, 2014

Dogmatism breeds stronger dogma

Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, in his column in the New York Times, has made the […]
May 19th, 2014

Your mind may trick you, the truth will set you free

You have bought a pair of very expensive tickets for a classical music concert but the traffic is horrible and […]
May 18th, 2014

I don’t know, and I don’t think you know either!

‘I don’t know’, is a hard statement to make for leaders who are supposed to know it all. That is […]
May 17th, 2014

You want to seek the company of a few rejected people

There are many compilations but I found these examples in distractify.com. These are cases of rejection that should make us […]
May 16th, 2014

All teams with a ‘sell-by date’

Imagine that any new team comes with a ‘sell-by date’. A label that says: ‘This meeting with disband, no matter […]
May 15th, 2014

The place called ROW

In the old days, when working for an American company, our business was split between the USA and the Rest […]
May 14th, 2014

Customer-centric? Prove it!

Many organizations want to be customer-centric, and will do lots of things to at least move in that direction. The […]
May 13th, 2014

A bit of inefficiency is very efficient

Cost cutting, cutting to the bone, cutting down to the bare minimum resources is praised as efficient. But it’s not. […]
May 12th, 2014

There is only one customer, and he pays the bills

I am your customer, you are my customer. When I need to provide you with something, you are my customer. […]
May 11th, 2014

The broken windows of the organization

A neighbourhood with broken windows and graffiti on the walls says: look how easy is to break a window here, […]