
‘For every problem, the Victorians have a building’. For every idea that we need to carry forward, we invent an […]
Company: Where companions are. Companion = com + panis in Latin, that is with bread, sharing bread of food. ‘Travelling […]
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 […]
Can we work on the collective and reward the individualistic? Well, sure you can, it happens every day. But it’s […]
Four types: The generosity of the traffic light. Every fixed interval, it lets you get through. It even changes colour […]
The England and Wales education authority has publicised a list of behaviours that will not be allowed in the classroom […]
A CEO asked me recently: what do you do with a manager who does not embrace or support change, in […]
Our concept of organizational culture as a receptacle for values, beliefs, attitudes, mindsets, ways of doing, written rules, unwritten rules, […]
Nassim Taleb has written about ‘antifragile’ as the quality of ‘growing from disorder’. He says that the opposite to fragile […]
Way number 1: My team has come up with these three options, A, B and C. Which one do you […]
The trouble with consensus is that it contains all the risks of poor thinking and all the possible cognitive biases, […]
‘The exercise was very rich, everybody participated deeply, the walls were full of flipcharts with stuff. So many ideas floating […]
Einstein said, “I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from […]
Nasim Taleb’s Antifragile book has this subtitle: ‘Things that gain from disorder’. This is a model for the new organization […]
The company is too big to change. We are too small to compete. It’s too early for a Leadership Development. […]
This is scene one of ‘The Tragedy of Coriolanus’ by William Shakespeare. It says a lot to us. It’s easy […]
‘When the only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’ If you have a predetermined view […]
The Business English language (yes, there is one) uses the word ‘accountability’ often associated to the word ‘taking’, as in […]
Continuing with thoughts on critical thinking…. ‘Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then […]
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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 […]