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Critical Thinking
We are all HR. So, we’d better upgrade ourselves. A lot of HR is deja vu
HR is a function. Well, hardly one. It’s a supermarket that has in its shelves a variety of brands, from […]
Built to what?
It always amazes me how much of the real purpose of the organization is often unsaid, assumed, never proper articulated. […]
The New Classics of Management. (1 of 2)
Amongst the challenges that management in the 21st Century has, which are shared, of course, by specific functions such as […]
From VUCA with love: your HR toolkits have expired; those versions are not supported anymore (try eBay)
VUCA: volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous environment, term created by the military to say that the future is not what […]
The Stopping Rule in organizations, where the meaning of life may be 37
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, ‘the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, […]
It’s cool to think. It’s not cool to do crap things. (2) Can we think better in ‘Employee Engagement’?
An undetermined glitch in the system made the distribution of this Daily Thought very limited to my community of email […]
There are always trade-offs. If you or your people have a plan, a great plan, without trade-offs in, it’s not a good plan.
You always have the trade-off between doing X, and not doing it at all. There will be a cost of […]
The Benign Dictatorship of the Feed Back Form
You’ve just been to a concert in the Great Hall of your city. Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”. Berlin […]
To decrease uncertainty is not always difficult. These examples show the big difference.
Read the following pairs. Notice which ones make you more comfortable. ‘You’re in a queue/line and we will respond to […]
It’s cool to think. It’s not cool to do crap things.
I am borrowing this line from Obama’s speech at Rutgers. Of course he was referring to certain presidential candidate. “Facts, […]
Thanks for your email. A proper robot would have done better.
Dear Mr Herrero. I have been trying to contact you but you were busy. No, you haven’t, we have no […]
Always attacking ‘the roots of problems’ is not necessarily the best route.
That traditional logic is unfortunately very weak. That logic only works if we can really find those roots. But, take […]
Bring the aliens. The others are too familiar with the solution
‘Familiarity breeds contempt’, the proverb says. But in management, it also breeds lost of content and satisfied people. We are […]
Small steps, small wins against an accelerated reality. Sensible strategy or a suicidal note?
‘I am convinced that a well thought out “small wins approach” is the premier path to effective strategy implementation, and […]
If we wear earplugs, the annoying noise of the organization would disappear and, life would be much better.
A friend of mine told me a story about his laptop. It got warmer and warmer; the fan on all […]
‘Every word that she says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’. The Post-Truth Era is upon us.
I’ve learned this quote from an excellent article in The Guardian by Jonathan Freedland about ‘post-truth politics’ (Post-truth politicians such […]
What the brain teaches us about consumer behaviour. Fascinating.
Neuroscientists at the Advance Brain Research Institute in Minnesota have found that there is a direct connection between ‘intention to […]
Inefficiencies, frustrations and unhappiness? Is the right path to growth, congratulations.
A good article came to me via my colleague Caroline, always ready to save some gems from my spam filter […]
Most ‘I’m just doing my job’ people, are not doing their jobs
Every morning in my neighbourhood there is a small window of time when traffic becomes chaotic, slow, painful and frustrating. […]
Produce as many bad ideas as you can. The statistics will be in your favour and a very good idea will come up.
Promise. There is more to gain from many bad, irrational, uncooked, unrealistic ideas popping up and rejecting them so that […]
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