
The monastic tradition in the Christian world has these 3 magic S that have been present since the Fathers of […]
If you followed the two previous Daily Thoughts, you would have got into the idea of ‘Managing by Segmenting Around’. […]
Exercise: take a piece of paper and put names next to each category. Use your organization or an organization you […]
These 8, self-explanatory categories of people are the natural focus of traditional HR and management systems . They are needed […]
What would be wrong with buying gazelles in the first place? The answer I hear sometimes is, ‘Well, the market […]
My ideal modern organization has different characters on the payroll. If there is a payroll. These are three of them: […]
In any organization there are positive deviants (deviants from expected norms, who achieve results) and other ‘statistical abnormalities’ by nature […]
If somebody could care to quantify the cost of constantly checking with people whether they are doing what they are […]
The so-called One Global Culture is a confederation of: (a) Geographical cultures and sub-cultures (Italy, USA, France etc) (b) Functional, […]
‘People like me’ is a category in its own right in the Edelman Trust Barometer. Multiple sets of data point […]
Performance appraisal or performance management are one thing. Forced ranking into an artificial normal distribution of people in the organization, […]
OK, at least you’re reading. Thanks. The organization is a network. Networks have emergent properties. Translation: things come up from […]
Peer-to-peer work, transversal, spontaneous or not, collaboration, peer-to-peer influence, peer-to-peer activities of Viral Change™ champions or activists, all of this is […]
We all live and work in bureaucratic organizations. The differences between us is the dose. In today’s world, bureaucracy is […]
I was told, many years ago, by somebody very close to the old Microsoft management, in Bill Gates times, that […]
Imagine this situation, which I am sure you have never come across. Just kidding. A ‘project’ (not necessarily defined as […]
I’ve written several times about the tired distinction between management and leadership. It had its logic and purpose, and made […]
Increasing the connectivity of people, who will benefit from enhanced collaboration, to achieve good things better, faster, differently, is a […]
In an experiment by Nicholas Christakis‘ team they tested the power of Artificial intelligence (AI) led bots (read pieces of […]
We have made character, virtue or goodness uncomfortable terms in the organization. They seem to provoke some sort of red […]
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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 […]