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Building Remarkable Organizations
No single discipline has the answer anymore. There is no escape. Read and re-skill like mad.
Whether you are sitting in HR, Organizational Development, or any other corporate function, or simply in a position of management […]
Creating a Gender and Race, Diversity and Inclusion programme? A culture of Diversity-Full-Stop will be your most powerful engine.
People creating ‘diversity and inclusion’ programmes often have a hard time. The programme for the concert is brilliant, the music […]
What is the point? Probably the best answer is when ‘there isn’t any’.
For sixteen days in June, people could walk over floating peers on Lake Iseo (Italy) , all covered with yellow […]
‘Sustainable but not too much’ is the best state of the healthy organization
Sustainability of change, of cultural initiatives, of well intentioned corporate improvements is the key challenge. We are all quite energetic […]
People who perform and live in Formal Org Land, and people who have make/break power: two different lists
These 8, self-explanatory categories of people are the natural focus of traditional HR and management systems . They are needed […]
There is no ‘readiness’. Go, go, go; people will get ready.
There was a time, I am told, when before starting a programme or initiative within the company, you made sure […]
It’s cool to think. It’s not cool to do crap things.
I am borrowing this line from Obama’s speech at Rutgers. Of course he was referring to certain presidential candidate. “Facts, […]
Why people ‘with leadership traits’ don’t become leaders. Waiting for the other half of the article.
Jack Welch, ex CEO of GE and Suzy Welch, Journalist, author and Jack’s wife have written in Linkedin, in one […]
Most good clues about the culture of the organization can be found in the invisible, the unsaid. This is where serious culture work needs to start.
Public sector health in many parts of the world has been financially squeezed. Committed health workers have continued to deliver […]
Small steps, small wins against an accelerated reality. Sensible strategy or a suicidal note?
‘I am convinced that a well thought out “small wins approach” is the premier path to effective strategy implementation, and […]
Management upside down: global is local, leadership goes grassroots, top is at the bottom, and traditional management needs a retirement party.
It is perhaps the Age of Inversion. The weights have gone the other way. Globalization, big G, or small g, […]
Digital Transformation: the new clothes for the enterprise, and something fundamental is missing
An indepth analysis of the world of ‘Digital Transformation’ shows two things. One is that there is no such thing […]
Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, after A’)
Culture is not a project, something to do on top of normal work, an extra, something to get your hands […]
I want builders, not problem solvers, not flow-chart artists.
I also don’t want bystanders, people who give diagnosis but would not have a clue about treatment, people who dwell […]
The new employees who never left their previous one
Have you noticed how many employees seem to be in ‘one employer behind time zone’? They never left the previous […]
8 ways to sabotage the organization.
Lessons from the Pre-CIA ‘Simple Sabotage Field Manual’ (declassified, in case you wonder). This is how it goes: General Interference […]
Bye-bye, annual Performace Management.
It was just a little over a year that I wrote that annual Performance Management needed to be retired. I […]
Protest platforms are hardly learning ones. Engagement surveys and events feed back are often anything but learning tools.
Political commentators in the US have argued that Donald Trump’s campaign is a protest one, attracting people who are against […]
Organizations don’t learn. People do. Sometimes too much. So where does company memory come in?
The modern organization is fluid. People are not necessarily assigned to one place, one team, even one single role. The […]
The collective as a bad sum. When collaboration becomes co-recreation and the sum is smaller than the parts.
In my dealing with organizations of many sizes and shapes, cultures and geographies, I always find very fine individuals of […]
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