
We have a problem in Division A. Leaders are not doing their job. Leaders are not living the values. Some […]
Somewhere along the line, in the history of ‘business’, something went wrong and people took the wrong turn at the […]
‘Walk the talk’ is being consistent: say something and then do what you said you would. ‘Talk the walk’ is […]
Any label that could be equally applied to Mother Theresa, Hitler, your CEO, Kim Jong-un, Mandela, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and […]
Many cultural change efforts fail out of a mathematical mistake. They focus on ‘people in the room’ (conference, off site, […]
In any organization there are positive deviants (deviants from expected norms, who achieve results) and other ‘statistical abnormalities’ by nature […]
We need to improve communication is not the same as, this is what we need to do to improve communication, […]
If somebody could care to quantify the cost of constantly checking with people whether they are doing what they are […]
At a conference I attended, the very sharp mind of Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, ex HP, ex Nokia, reminded […]
Imagine this situation, which I am sure you have never come across. Just kidding. A ‘project’ (not necessarily defined as […]
Winston Churchill said, referring to the Houses of Parliament in the UK, ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’. […]
Here are my top five from my organizational consulting work. The paraphrasing is mine, the ownership is shared with my […]
Scientism is taking over management, so anything that can be expressed in scores and numbers is glorified regardless of the […]
Extracts taken from my new book ‘The Flipping Point‘. A flipping point in the trend for adopting absurd management ideas needs […]
Spot the difference at the dinner party or barbeque. So, what do you do Joe? [You must start with ‘so’ […]
Consistently attributed to physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who had no time for sloppy thinking, ‘not even wrong’ has become a category […]
If you work in a corporation with headquarters and affiliates, scattered in many places, or with international sites, you will […]
The traditional thinking about divisional and functional structures within organizations, which were born of the need for specialization and a […]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”, says the Book of Proverbs in the Bible. This quote comes in […]
‘The exercise was very rich, everybody participated deeply, the walls were full of flipcharts with stuff. So many ideas floating […]
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Social media is a colossal echo chamber where all cognitive processes are surrendered to one single driver: confirmation bias.
Extracts taken from my new book The Flipping Point. A flipping point in the trend for adopting absurd management ideas […]