
Many organizations have a Risk Management function of some sort. Often scattered amongst different constituencies: manufacturing, engineering, R&D etc. It […]
There are times when you get stuck in arguments. Discussions seem to go nowhere. You are running in circles and […]
Crisis are/constitute inflection points. Also M&A, extraordinary organic growth, relocations, and entering new markets. Keep adding. Pain is inevitable, misery […]
The traditional organization is, amongst other things, obsessed with closure. It despises ambiguity and puts a premium on the absolute […]
Einstein said, “I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from […]
The concept of disruption in management has been applied to innovation before. A disruptive innovation is a technology, process or […]
There is a ‘meeting expectations’ cult in business. It has created its own concept of (customer) services: meet customer expectations, […]
Surprise is a powerful strategy in its own right. Surprise means being ahead of the game, being further ahead than […]
Amongst my clients I have a good representation of ‘regulated industries’ such as pharmaceuticals and financial services. I, myself, spent […]
These are ‘functions’ and ‘structures’ in need of spaces in the organization. You may not be brave enough, or crazy […]
There are always people who ‘don’t get it’, are against cultural change efforts, do not support a programme, torpedo it, […]
Back in 1994, Jim Collins, consultant and author, gained a lot of attention with his book Built To Last: Successful […]
New units: Certificate of existence = 280 characters (Twitter) Presentation of ideas, maximum attention span = 18 mins (TED) Digital […]
Modern and not so modern ‘social movements’ with or a without business propositions are portrayed as a concerted and positioned […]
Try my Border Diet: A diet to protect yourself against persistent Full Disclosure that the digital world forces upon you. […]
Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look […]
I owe this to Nassim Taleb (‘Fooled by Randomness’ (2007), ‘The Black Swan’ (2008), ‘Antifragile’ (2013). As a traveller of many years […]
Bottom-up is not more (of the same) workshops but at the bottom of the organization. Changing the geography of top-down […]
Attention Chief Transformation Officers, Offices of Transformation, Change Management Units, and Change Offices, and Projects of Future A,B,C,. Units of […]
‘Work conquers all’, or ‘steady work overcomes all things’ Virgil dixit. For many, the time of post-break is approaching, if […]
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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 […]