
Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, […]
If you want to have a conversation about the future of work, the nature of work, the post-pandemic work, the […]
Welcome to my weekly focus on culture change, leadership and organizational design. This week, I focus on what culture is, […]
For those of you not yet familiar with the change. Daily Thoughts has evolved. New name and format. Rather than daily, I […]
Daily Thoughts has evolved. New name and format. Rather than daily, I will share with you a weekly focus on culture […]
I had a discussion with a client recently, about the resistance to get rid of complicated processes that almost everybody […]
Yesterday’s Daily Thought introduced the formula: (1) Space in the World (Purpose) + (2) Core Beliefs + (3) Non negotiable Behaviours […]
Many companies operate under some sort of ‘Mission and Vision’ framework, often also accompanied, or preceded, by a statement of […]
Please pray for the soul of incrementalism that, after a long and slow incremental illness, left us for good. After […]
The phrase is from John Lennon who stole it from TS Elliott ‘amateur poets borrow; mature poets steal’. There are […]
If one thing has become clear after all these decades of management soul-searching for more or less universal truths, this […]
Paraphrasing (better, stealing from) American anthropologist Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) a corporate culture, or, I would say, a subculture that you […]
The description of some company cultures by their leaders may sound like a work of fiction by people inside. I […]
I have on several occasions presented my views on Employer Branding. The trouble with this area, is that it overlaps […]
Culture is not a project, something to do on top of normal work, an extra, something to get your hands […]
If you want to have a conversation about the future of work, the nature of work, the post-pandemic work, the […]
Organizations have traditionally used a three-legged approach to creating a ‘culture’: Communications, training and compliance. None of those in isolation […]
It seems to be very hard for people to get away from the idea that, if we just put individuals […]
There are about 200 people in the organization. But 10 of them at the top are very powerful In fact, […]
I previously wrote about company cultures having a glue, The One Global Culture does not exist. But pretending that it […]
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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 […]