It’s a poems of two lines ‘Jamesian’ By Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004) “Their relationship consisted In discussing if it […]

Let’s make a movie. We need a producer with the money. A director to direct. An agency to find the […]

In a recent cultural assessment that we conducted, we analysed the treatment of mistakes within the corporation. This is a […]

A while ago, my brand new iPhone was stolen at the airport, having left it behind on a table for […]

Many times in my consulting work, I find myself facing this dilemma. Do I involve many people on the client’s […]

It’s in the news! It’s all over the place, particularly in mainstream US news: Amazon are paying employees to quit. […]

A meeting room without a flipchart is decaffeinated coffee. The absence of a flipchart insinuates possibly lots of talking, perhaps […]

There is an ‘Accidental Literature for Leaders’.  I call this my compilation of poems or pieces of narrative that are […]

I have had a brilliant two day meeting with a brilliant client. One aspect of my work with organizations that […]

A recent senior hire in a client company commented to me that the thing that most impressed her in the […]

Change  management, or management of change. Thank God there can only be two permutations, because they are the most over-used […]

Grandiose plans get sabotaged by small things. Many years ago, I was involved in what was going to be a […]

Said Wittgenstein. Language in business and organizations creates frames, but also limitations. And we have lots of these frames. ‘Employee […]

There was this big conference that was introduced by the chairman in this way: ‘Welcome everybody. Lovely to have you […]

Saturday. It seems to come quite regularly after Friday. Friday? Saturday? Weekday? As Pablo Neruda perhaps would have said  ‘Too […]

“Where there is no vision, the people perish”, says the Book of Proverbs in the Bible. This quote comes in […]

The traditional organization is, amongst other things, obsessed with closure.  It despises ambiguity and puts a premium on the absolute […]

About seven years ago, the BBC broadcasted a series called ‘How we built Britain’, presented by the veteran David Dimbleby. […]

The war on talent. McKinsey consultants started it with a book of the same title. By focusing on what it […]

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