
‘Daily Thoughts’ is paused, to assess its value and its next ‘presentation of life’. Bear with us. In the meantime, […]
One of us or one of them. Liberal or conservative. Top down or bottom up. Progressive or retrograde. Robust or […]
Organizational performance is unique. Cut and paste does not work. You need to find your own formula. Good to hear […]
The late Stanislav Andreski (1919-2007) British Professor of Social Sciences, in one of his vintage passages in ‘Social Sciences as […]
This quote is from Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988), American science fiction writer, who was famous for his quotes. This one […]
Attention re-structuralists, strategists and people about to be sold a multi-million pound reorganization solution that will solve all those nasty […]
Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]
In WWII there was a curious episode of an injection of critical thinking, not entirely well publicised. Big bomber airplanes […]
The difference between the critical thinker and the un-critical one is not a difference in IQ, or mental strength, or […]
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a 19th century Swiss mathematician is remembered by many things in his scientific turf, but by one […]
We are pulled to conform to the group, to participate, to contribute, to say something. Nodding is not enough. Taking […]
Accustomed as we are to creating plans to succeed on something, this may sound counterintuitive. Creating (serious) plans for failure […]
Strong thinking and strong ideas are great. We need people to defend them, champion them and feel passionate about them. […]
In my work as Organization Architect, I have dealt with clients of many sizes, shapes and colours over the years. […]
A slow growth cancer in organizations. People unnecessarily and gratuitously condemning the company to an impossible future: we will never […]
We are social animals. We live in spaces, with rules, with rituals, in tribal environments. We are both architects of […]
Our managerial training and praxis has been quite successful at making us guilty of not focusing enough on a task […]
‘Continuous improvement’ is part of the management furniture and something that, at face value, one could not disagree with. But […]
Complacency is always a risk, more so when we profess to be immune to it. Sometimes, achieving organizational and business […]
Corporate speak is of course tribal. So, to belong, you have to speak the tribal idiom. Through my work, I […]
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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 […]