
Taken from my soon to be released book, Camino – Leadership Notes On The Road Invited to present at TEDx […]
Happy Christmas and New Year to everybody in the Daily Thoughts community. We have all had the most challenging year […]
This five part mini-series (!) is not glamorous. It tries to uncover some inconvenient truths via a reverse engineering of […]
The modern organization is fluid. People are not necessarily assigned to one place, one team, even one single role. The […]
Societal issues, clash of ideologies, fundamentalism, political engagement (or lack of it), organizational innovation, Leadership 2020, no matter what direction […]
As Woody Allen said, showing up is 80% of life. The bookshelves, digital or otherwise, are full of ‘How-To-Succeed-In’ stuff. […]
There are many compilations but I found these examples in distractify.com. These are cases of rejection that should make us […]
I previously wrote about company cultures having a glue, The One Global Culture does not exist. But pretending that it […]
There is a romantic view of the organization that sees it completely borderless, inside and outside. Inside, this view says, […]
There are two opposite and wrong reactions to Employee (engagement/satisfaction) surveys. At one end, there is the ‘ignore the findings’. […]
Passion is an emotion, or set of emotions. You may want, indeed, that your people are passionate, but you can’t […]
‘Let’s be real and aware of the current budget realities’ is a warning that leaders should give to their people […]
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a Norwegian Anthropology professor that has achieved more than any of his fellow anthropologists: you only […]
1. They don’t read blogs entitled ‘5 things very successful leaders have in common’. 2. They don’t care about lists […]
Performance appraisal or performance management are one thing. Forced ranking into an artificial normal distribution of people in the organization, […]
Structural answers to organizational problems are very unlikely to succeed. Division A people don’t collaborate with Division B people, so […]
A book by ex-Microsoft researcher and now MIT prof Kentaro Toyama (Geek Heresy, 20015) is not precisely novel on the topic of […]
A CEO asked me recently: what do you do with a manager who does not embrace or support change, in […]
The great Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote about the early 20th Century Spanish society as being ‘led by people who […]
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 […]