
Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage. These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]
So, I’m back. But in a different format. Rather than daily thoughts, I will now share with you a regular […]
‘Daily Thoughts’ is paused, to assess its value and its next ‘presentation of life’. Bear with us. In the meantime, […]
An old patient was concerned about her hair. A nurse came in at 7 am to put colour in her […]
A publication I once received around the Mighty Davos meeting portrays the views of five expert academics on the topic […]
We all know, and have, some heroes in our organizations. People who jump in, solve problems, make themselves available, walk […]
Possibility is perhaps the most beautiful word in management. There are organizations in which possibilities seem exhausted, work is an […]
Continuing my revised 12 laws of social change at a scale. Very simple laws apply to any large scale change including the […]
In my consulting work, it is incredibly frequent to see people stuck with a question: ‘but what do they want us […]
When trying to understand a culture, there will be plenty of visible things to look at, to hear and to […]
I said in yesterday’s Daily Thought that we needed to grab the (management) Paradox of Control. The more we lose […]
The more ‘command-and-control’ you practice, the less control you actually have and the more you’ll need to command. In today’s […]
THIS THURSDAY – don’t miss our final live webinar in the ‘A Better Way’ series, when Mark Storm and I […]
Imagine this goal. Let’s shift from 30 people making a decision in 30 days, to 3 people making the same […]
It is perhaps the Age of Inversion. The weights have gone the other way. Globalisation, big G, or small g, […]
These are commonly found uses of the expression ‘they’ within organizations. They won’t approve this They don’t get it They […]
People in organizations spend a lot of time representing somebody else or something else. It feels sometimes that the company […]
The trouble with the talking about leadership is that we have made a big basket of it and thrown in […]
Let me share a piece of our own research that has just come up from the oven. In a 1200 […]
Organizations have traditionally used a three-legged approach to creating a ‘culture’: Communications, training and compliance. None of those in isolation […]
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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 […]