
Employee engagement efforts, ownership values and empowerment behaviours must meet at one point. It’s simple, not terribly controversial, based upon […]
For me, the most damaging use of the employee engagement framework is the widespread one that states that ‘engagement’ predicts […]
Engagement, retention even activism…Traditional models of employee engagement are getting a bit tired. They are starting to look the same, […]
In case you missed my first edition, sent out last week, Daily Thoughts has evolved. Now a new format, rather than daily, I […]
1: The ‘annual’ measurement is artificial. It works for budgets and accountants but not for much more. If a project […]
The ‘expectations muddle’ of empowerment has different shapes and flavours: I expect you to do something but you don’t think […]
Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]
This is model 4 of the series. The concept is simple. Imagine that you, as an employee, are in reality an […]
This is model 3 (but the 4th post, confusing!) ‘The Cause’. Employees join forces to work on a Cause: green agenda, corporate […]
This is model 2 in the pack of 6 that I have described. There is a book, or two, and its […]
I am (in) IT, I work for X (company) I work for X (company), I am in IT These are […]
Since employee engagement has become an industry in its own right, and is taking over a lot of air time, […]
Where is home? Ask this question to an Irishman or Irish woman. Even if they have been living abroad for […]
I have been researching for a while the not-that-easy topic of ‘cognitive mental frames’ or ‘mental models’ that take over […]
If I were the one in charge of deciding the ‘person of the year’ for the front cover of Time […]
Collaboration is behavioural, not a process or system. As a behaviour, it can’t be taught. It’s something that some people […]
Exercise: take a piece of paper and put names next to each category. Use your organization or an organization you […]
The following line will short cut months of (building) ‘alignment’, integration, reorganization, team building, coalition building, start-up get-to-know, redeployment of […]
The job description is dead. It is replaced by a Lego box, no instruction manual or a map. Welcome to […]
Louis Gerstner, chairman of IBM from 1993 until 2002, recalls in his autobiography, the company’s use of a competence model […]
To search my website, please use the form below.
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 […]