When we started to work on Viral Change™, as a way to create large scale behavioural and cultural change, and […]
New organizations, and old ones in the business of transforming themselves, would be better off learning by heart these two […]
Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage. These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]
Command and control management has fewer friends, and it’s quite terminally ill as well. The heirs are fighting for a piece […]
Leading a meeting for the purposes of building a team (on top of achieving some business goals) may include a […]
If any of these are a good picture of your organization, you need to add ‘critical thinking’ to the […]
‘Meetings’ and ‘teams’ are two different things. Team equals meeting, is a cancer. Our language has been perverted. ‘Let’s bring […]
Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, […]
The old tale of ‘Boiling Frogs’ says that there are too basic ways to boil a frog. One, the frog […]
Banks have had stress tests (imposed) to see how they would cope with difficult market conditions. For example, in the […]
We often hear the need to put some order in Division A, or to restructure X and Y by putting […]
Organizational performance is unique. Cut and paste does not work. You need to find your own formula. Good to hear […]
In the old Greek tragedies, when the plot became an unsolvable mess, a God (or few of them) came down […]
We have been exploring briefly in the last days the Steering system of the company under the formula: (1) Space […]
The trouble with value systems is that, very often, they have no proper translation into pragmatic and visible expectations that […]
Many companies operate under some sort of ‘Mission and Vision’ framework, often also accompanied, or preceded, by a statement of […]
In some organizations, daily life and the day to day meetings feel like a Permanent Focus Group. People spend their […]
We all know, and have, some heroes in our organizations. People who jump in, solve problems, make themselves available, walk […]
Facts: abysmal sales in the supermarket chain, strong competitor activity, decreased customer loyalty. Guess what, new CEO. Analysis: old fashion […]
There are hundreds of pieces of evidence including serious research that show that human beings (and animals for that matter) […]
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