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Building Remarkable Organizations
Organizations wired wrong (and 5 of 5): If you want ‘One Company’ surely it’s because you don’t have one. The more you push it, the more it will slip away.
No medium to large size company has a single culture. No medium to large size French, or British or American […]
Organizations wired wrong (4 of 5): Don’t team up with people you know very well.
Affinity, like-minded groupings and ‘we know each other very well’ works if what you want is to get things done, […]
Memo: Permission never required, so don’t ask.
I read a while ago this story. Within the highly structured and hierarchical (by design) Catholic church, a Religious Order […]
Entrepreneurs on the payroll
Maybe, just maybe, we don’t need ‘managers’ and ‘employees’, as in generals and troops. My strong bet is for a […]
Note to procurement: no more tanks, we got the wrong war.
There was a time when ‘my tanks are bigger than yours’ was the so called competitive advantage. Bigger muscle, bigger […]
Back to the Daily Date.
It’s been a while. Having a gap in the writing daily date helps to gain perspective. I went through a […]
The Pancake Revolution in management missed some details
Flat organizations, part of the Pancake Revolution (got the patent pending) that we have gone through, trimming management layers and […]
10 shifts in the Remarkable Organization in the making ( and Santa wishes ideas)
In preparation for Santa, I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in the organizational life: a 10 point […]
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Some organizations want agility, entrepreneurship, great innovation and superb customer centrism. But they are operating with structures, processes and behaviours […]
The fastest and best way to build a creative culture: all revealed now
The fastest and best way to build a creative culture is to have lots of creative people together. No kidding. […]
Accountability holes? Desert spaces? Orphan ideas? Buy the tent, occupy the street.
Any organization has accountability holes, areas where nobody really owns the space. Sometimes these are true ‘grey areas’, sometimes are […]
The Disruption Religion misses the point: what will not change, and how we can capitalize on it. (2 of 2)
In the previous Daily Thought I shared the simple idea that change management approaches often miss a big elephant in […]
Good leaders are a bit of corporate anthropologists, without the six months in Tanzania.
Good leaders are a bit of corporate anthropologists. In fact, we are all exotics in the payroll. In my idiosyncratic, […]
Bezo’s Day One is a good place to be. Line stolen (again) with thanks
Jeff Bezos. Amazon’s CEO, has been using the ‘Day One expression since the 1997 letter to shareholders. Now, it is […]
The enemy is most likely to be within
Looking outside is great. Looking inside is not a good idea. It leads to navel gazing. Nombrilisme in French, more […]
Organizations: The Enemy Within (2/3). What the real enemies look like.
How to look for the enemy? It is there. It is in the form of divisional silos that don’t talk […]
Organizations: The Enemy Within (1/3). There is no ‘war on talent’
When years ago McKinsey consultants produced a book entitled “The war for talent”, they successfully created the impression that talent […]
It’s the journey, not the milk and honey.
I am revisiting an old Daily Thought of 3 years ago as a reflection of how see things from the […]
There is always room for uniqueness, even in the most standardised management process. What would it take?
Uniqueness is a tough concept. I’ve got countless examples of clients pushing back over the years. ‘Come on, this is […]
‘If’, the poem. (Management version circa. 2017)
If instead of a company, you had and led a community. If instead of employees you had internal social activists. […]
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