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Redefining Talent Wealth
The war on talent McKinsey consultants started it with a book of the same title. By focusing on what it […]
Restructuring to force collaboration, is likely to create more anxiety than collaboration. Structural solutions for behavioural problems hardly work.
Sometimes restructuring is done with the intention of solving a collaboration problem. ´A people´ don’t talk to ´B people´; if […]
The ‘Impossible To Disagree With’ School Of Management
‘Good leaders have empathy, respect employees and set the example. If you want to change things, you need to have […]
´Busy-Ness’ Is A Trap
I went to a big conference where I was introduced by the chairman like this: “Welcome everybody. Lovely to have […]
Training and culture change. The love affair that ends in tears.
It seems to be very hard for people to get away from the idea that if we just put individuals […]
Teamocracies and Networkracies have different citizens: in-Habitants in team-work, riders in net-work
The old view of the organization is something close to the old concept of a medieval city, where citizenship was […]
3 Ways To Get Approval From Your CEO Or Your Leadership Team
Way number 1: My team has developed these three options, A, B and C. Which one do you want us […]
A culture of safety or a culture of training in safety?
Cultures are created by behaviours becoming the norm. Safety is at the core of many industries. Significant budgets are allocated […]
Empowerment is an output. If you can visualize it, you can craft it.
The real question is, what do you want to see happening so that you can say ‘people are empowered’? Employee […]
A simple question will jumpstart your organization into change. It will also save you from months of pain spent reorganizing your people and teams.
The following line will short-cut months of (building) ‘alignment’, integration, reorganization, team building, coalition building, and any situation in which Peter, […]
Write a script, not a strategic plan
If you care about the journey and the place, you need a story. If you have a good, compelling one, […]
Campaign It… is 1 of my 40 rules of change
When you filter out the noise, when you try to extract the core, the fundamentals, those ‘universal rules’ of change […]
Corporate tribes, intellectual ghettos and open window policies
We talk a lot about silos in organizations usually in the context of Business Units or divisions. But these are not […]
Peer Networks are the strongest force of action inside the organization
Peer-to-peer works, transversal, spontaneous or not, collaboration, peer-to-peer influence, peer-to-peer activities of Viral Change™ champions or activists, all of this is […]
Certainty! Or reduced uncertainty! We all can practise it. Not rocket science, just zero cost behavioural science.
Managing uncertainty is something our brain loves to do. And it loves even more to be helped. At macro-macro-level, Theories-Of-Everything […]
Sharing thoughts, being carriers, and why there are no idiots anymore
I have described before the role of managers in many ways, often pointing to the risk of becoming ‘information traffic […]
Walking e-bays bearing second hand thoughts
We are pulled to conform to the group, to participate, to contribute, to say something. Nodding is not enough. Taking […]
Preach your values all the time, when necessary use words
This is plagiarism, of course. I am stealing 13th Century Saint, Francis of Assisi’s line: ‘Preach the Gospel all the […]
Thesaurus – based value and behaviours systems are meaningless, exhausted and cheap
Let’s start somewhere else. What is the logic behind Listmania? Very often there isn’t one. But starting a note/blog/communication with […]
A ‘culture of X’ is not the same as a culture of ‘training on X’. Safety is a good example.
Organizations have traditionally used a three-legged approach to creating a ‘culture’: Communications, training and compliance. None of those in isolation […]
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