
In a large company, what do a leadership development, a culture change and a business integration programme typically have in […]
Third instalment in the uncovering of truths via a reverse engineering of the failure of change and transformation programmes. Finding: […]
In my Daily Thought back in September, I suggested that leadership competence-based systems may be better at providing a language […]
We have a problem in Division A. Leaders are not doing their job. Leaders are not living the values. Some […]
Madeleine Albright, politician and diplomat; former and first female U.S. Secretary of State, said in her Commencement Speech at Scripps […]
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 […]
These 8, self-explanatory categories of people are the natural focus of traditional HR and management systems . They are needed […]
Many cultural change efforts fail out of a mathematical mistake. They focus on ‘people in the room’ (conference, off site, […]
Many years ago companies started to say ‘we are organized into project teams’. Professional projectisation was the thing. Until it […]
In any organization there are positive deviants (deviants from expected norms, who achieve results) and other ‘statistical abnormalities’ by nature […]
Four types: The generosity of the traffic light. Every fixed interval, it lets you get through. It even changes colour […]
We need to improve communication is not the same as, this is what we need to do to improve communication, […]
There are three major sources of trust generation. Everything else is commentary: The ‘keep promises’. I can rely on you, […]
If somebody could care to quantify the cost of constantly checking with people whether they are doing what they are […]
I owe this phrase to John Kerry whom I had the privilege of seeing on his London tour promoting his […]
There are many ways to introduce, trigger and spread behaviours in organizations, but not many of them are effective and […]
I previously wrote about company cultures having a glue, The One Global Culture does not exist. But pretending that it […]
We can do much better than this. But we don’t. On the contrary, we exploit these platitudes and repeat them […]
It could be argued that ‘silos’ are part of the human condition and group interaction, and Chris Rodgers (Informal Coalitions) […]
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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 […]