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Disruptive Ideas
The cost of doing something versus the cost of not doing it. The second half is often missing.
Confronted with options and strategies, the cost of doing things is very often the first thing that comes to our […]
The ‘initiative’ often lets personal commitment off the hook
‘For every problem, the Victorians have a building’. For every idea that we need to carry forward, we invent an […]
The Returning Bomber Paradox: a case of reframing the problem. More on Critical Thinking.
In WWII there was a curious episode of injection of critical thinking, not entirely well publicised. Big airplanes bombers in […]
Community Organizing 1, Harvard MBA nil.
When Uber, the ride-on-demand business growing across the world, had a problem, didn’t call management consultants, but a political campaigner/social […]
Critical Thinking self-test. A 10 point health check for your organization, and yourself
If any of these are a good picture of your organization, you need to put ‘critical thinking’ in the water […]
Introducing behaviours by the back door. The ‘culture of feed back’ example
There are many ways to introduce, trigger and spread behaviours in organizations, but not many of them are effective and […]
Don’t read this post, it’s not really interesting
Did you hear me? Yes you did, but you are reading it. It’s an old trick. We have said this […]
If skimming is the new reading, critical thinking in organizations will become even harder. Start your own ‘Read-it-all-Movement’.
There are plenty of studies trying to figure out the differences between digital reading and reading a (physical ) book, […]
The healing smell of a corporate bonfire. (The Hernan Cortes Exit strategy).
The British retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) has ‘Plan A’ as the title for their vast corporate and social responsibility […]
Failure has become a badge of honour in some places. Or at least, something to show on the CV as an asset.
A recent article in the New York Times refers to a Conference/initiative in San Francisco where the agenda is built […]
Not all ambiguity in the organization is bad. There is, in fact, ‘good ambiguity’ and ‘bad ambiguity’.
In most organizations there is a certain dose of ambiguity: accountabilities not completely clear, some overlapping of responsibilities, dynamic tensions […]
Lose control, to gain more control (2/2) Starting the Control Diet
I said in the first part of this Daily Thought that we needed to grab the (management) Paradox of Control. […]
Lose control, to gain more control (1/2) : The paradox and the symptoms
From my Disruptive Ideas book and Accelerator, I’d like to bring this one to the table as a follow up […]
‘Hill-climbing’ as a model for disruptive thinking – Guest blog by Scott E. Fahlman
There’s something to keep in mind when trying to create a disruptive change: Most such attempts fail, and when one […]
Do you have a ‘Chaos Monkey’ in your management system? You should.
Many organizations have a Risk Management function of some sort. Often scattered amongst different constituencies: manufacturing, engineering, R&D etc. It […]
In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire
Our faith in communication is enormous. Why? Perhaps because we know well the problems associated with the lack of communication. […]
Employee Engagement Models continue (5/7): ‘The Investors metaphor’.
This is model 4 of the series. The concept is simple. Imagine that you, as an employee, are in reality […]
‘Disruptive’: a word for all seasons, in need of a holiday.
Jill Lepore, author, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Harvard professor of American History has created a little storm, […]
The company on a treadmill: devise routine Stress Tests
Banks have had stress tests (imposed) to see how they would cope with difficult market conditions. For example, in the […]
In need of Netflix irrational logic
The American version of the British ‘House of Cards’ (book, then TV series), is a fine piece of art. Kevin […]
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