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Creativity and Innovation
‘How can we make this fail?” is a more powerful question than its opposite
Accustomed as we are to creating plans to succeed on something, this may sound counterintuitive. Creating (serious) plans for failure […]
The fastest and best way to build a creative culture: all revealed now
The fastest and best way to build a creative culture is to have lots of creative people together. No kidding. […]
Focus, focus! But only after un-focusing a lot
Our managerial training and praxis has been quite successful at making us guilty of not focusing enough on a task […]
3 ways to use ‘Digital’ inside the organization. The trouble with wrong expectations.
Model 1. The technology, for example in the form of digital platforms such as Enterprise Social Networks, ESN (Yammer type) […]
Mondays shape Tuesdays. If you could just fast forward…
Winston Churchill said, referring to the Houses of Parliament in the UK, ‘We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us’. […]
The tragedy of corporate shallowness. A call to wake up
These are the symptoms. Indicators, red flags, culture makers. If you have more than 5, you are in trouble. 6 […]
Proposed new management competency: deprogramming
Deprogramming is a form of management detox. We navigate and work in organizations with a great deal of automatic pilot, […]
Segment, segment, segment. Add these three words to the dictionary of Internal Communications.
If you look at political marketing, and the place to look for a serious PhD in communications and their segmentation […]
The ‘who-does-what’ and the ‘who-knows-what’ models of the organization, lead to different worlds.
If you had to build an organization from scratch, or re-design one, you would have options about some models to […]
Disruptive innovation, like charity, starts at home. Your mind and your people, that is. The rest is the easy part.
The concept of disruption in management has been applied to innovation before. A disruptive innovation is a technology, process or […]
Karaoke Management Consulting
Is this what people want? Singing along with what the Big Gurus have provided? Music and lyrics? Sometimes I feel […]
Seeking unpredictable answers
We spend too much time seeking predictable answers. They are not necessarily bad. If I work with Peter, Paul and […]
Out of the box, in the box, what box? ‘We-need-to-talk-about-boxes’ and other useful personality profiles
To think out of the box, one has to recognise first that there is a box. Therefore one has to […]
Management ‘post-hoc fallacies’, but damn good stories!
In Latin ‘Post hoc ergo propter hoc’. Free translation: B follows A, so A must be the cause of B. […]
HR competence systems need two things: a diet, and a dose of honesty
Medium and big organizations tend to use a competence system that segments people by grades and by degree of competence. […]
Saturday poem for leaders who don’t read poems
There is an ‘Accidental Literature for Leaders’. I call this my compilation of poems or pieces of narrative that are […]
We are all traders of comfort, no matter the degree of uncertainty in our worlds
A specialist nephrologist I know well says to me: I get very nervous with all this heart stuff, I don’t […]
Emotional Ignorance needs a book
Emotional Intelligence was a paragraph-length concept expressed in a library of publications. At the time it was a shock in […]
The Rolling Luggage Paradox
I owe this to Nassim Taleb (‘Fooled by Randomness’ (2007), ‘The Black Swan’ (2008), ‘Antifragile’ (2013). As a traveller of many years […]
In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire
Our faith in communication is enormous. Why? Perhaps because we know well the problems associated with the lack of communication. […]
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