
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 […]
The so-called One Global Culture is a confederation of: (a) Geographical cultures and sub-cultures (Italy, USA, France etc) (b) Functional, […]
The great Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote about the early 20th Century Spanish society as being ‘led by people who […]
Continuous culture shaping within an organization equals social movement: large scale behavioural and cultural change, for a purpose, powered by […]
Some organizations that are very good at (external) marketing, are terrible at internal. Grand market(ing) plans, but can’t sell a […]
Culture is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it can host the most beautiful and sophisticated developments, enhance people’s life, […]
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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 […]