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Critical Thinking
The new employees who never left their previous one
Have you noticed how many employees seem to be in ‘one employer behind time zone’? They never left the previous […]
Rule #3: Systematic use of sweeping generalizations is reason for dismissal
OK, a bit harsh, but this is what I mean. Some people are very good at this. ‘We have a […]
HBR says culture is not the culprit, and, by the way, you can’t fix it. Yes we can.
Harvard Business Review (HBR) never ceases to amaze me. Very often I feel that there is some sort of a […]
The Zeus strategy: de-aggregating the problem
Plato told us in his Symposium that humans were originally androgynous, not men or women. They became so powerful that […]
Fixed ideas. From a guest blogger who knows.
‘In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their […]
Behaviours are always competing for airtime. What wins may not be what you expect.
There are very few rules in Behavioural Sciences. If we were to write an ABC of Psychology, A would look […]
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 […]
Bye-bye, annual Performace Management.
It was just a little over a year that I wrote that annual Performance Management needed to be retired. I […]
Don’t go to Abilene. Nobody wants to.
Jerry B Harvey’s 1974 article “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement’, contains this vignette. On a hot afternoon visiting […]
Organizations don’t learn. People do. Sometimes too much. So where does company memory come in?
The modern organization is fluid. People are not necessarily assigned to one place, one team, even one single role. The […]
Organizational thrillers, little apocalypses and skies not quite falling: another random day at the office
We have a phenomenal challenge in France. Our people there ‘don’t get the values’, are very cynical and, to make […]
Recruited by an algorithm, unheard in a crowed market, competing for attention: know the rules and your stats.
‘Recruiters spend 6 seconds evaluating individual online resumes/CVs’ That’s it. Six. The self-reporting by recruiters indicated 4-5 minutes, but using […]
Mindfulness, the new solution. Oh, sorry, I forgot, what’s the problem?
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, software millionaire, has discovered mindfulness. And has installed ‘mindfulness rooms’ in the Salesfore building in […]
How can I think out of the box? I can’t find the door
Our box is incredibly sophisticated. It has the latest quality walls, sofas, working spaces and lots of meeting rooms. I […]
Leaders, Dealers and Dreamers.
Leaders. They drive the agenda, the agenda is not driving them. They drive the agenda even when other people think […]
Strong thinkers are critical thinkers. Critical thinking can be embedded in the culture.
Strong thinking and strong ideas are great. We need people to defend them, champion them and feel passionate about them. […]
‘Problem Three’ appears when we treat complexity with more complexity. Many organizations breed it. The UK NHS is caught in it.
At some point of the organization’s growth, complexity kicks in. Before that threshold, you had two problems: managing growth and […]
Critical Thinking is up in the list of skills in the 2020 Davos shopping list. If anything, I have a problem with the date. The skill gap is now, well and alive
A report on the Future of Jobs by the World Economic Forum compares the skills priorities of 2015 with the […]
Tell me what you want to prove and I’ll give you the name of a company.
Consoled only by having bought the book for £ 0.09 ( and £2.80 postage) in Amazon marketplace, the reality is […]
State of the Enterprise Address Summary: Rethinking in progress.
I don’t think ‘rethinking the enterprise’ is anything new. You could argue that the history of management has this rethinking […]
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