Some organizations are little versions of Dante’s Inferno with its sign ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’ at the […]
So you have The Process and The Outcome dating. You would have thought that they are having a good time. […]
Consistently over the years, the Edelman’s Trust Barometer has told us that the greatest source of trust inside the organization […]
In a massive street demonstration for Anti Something Big, you have the Anti Something Big activists, the Anti Everything, the […]
Mobilizing people. This is another of the Holy Grails (how many have I said we have?) in management. Whether you […]
Modern and not so modern ‘social movements’ with or a without business propositions are portrayed as a concerted and positioned […]
Said Wittgenstein. Language in business and organizations creates frames, but also limitations. And we have lots of these frames. ‘Employee […]
(1) If the top leadership of the company doesn’t exhibit the values/behaviours that you want to instill in the culture, […]
I must confess I have never been 100% comfortable with the traditional distinction by Warren Bennis between leaders and managers […]
There is an ‘Accidental Literature for Leaders’. I call this my compilation of poems or pieces of narrative that are […]
Many people, many of them in high managerial positions, succeed by avoiding failure. They become unmemorable by design. A new […]
Management Theory (if there is one) and management practice are not physics. We don’t have very solid data about what […]
Here we go. I’m sounding a little gloomy for a Monday morning. I don’t mean to. Promise. Back in 2016 […]
Leadership has traditional sources of learning, reflection, role modelling and a ‘body of knowledge’. There are four that dominate. This […]
It’s impossible to listen in a noisy room. If you want to listen to your breathing, you need silence. You […]
William Stafford’s (1914 – 1993) poem reads: The things you do not have to say make you rich, Saying the […]
Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]
10 key behavioural competences of people to understand what is going on. Small sample of my collection. These are 10 […]
Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look […]
The new, emerging organizations, many people would agree, are more collaborative, more leadership-distributed, less top-down, with more levels of empowerment […]
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