Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile book has this subtitle: ‘Things that gain from disorder’. This is a model for the new organization […]
Spot the difference at the dinner party or barbeque. So, what do you do Joe? [You must start with ‘so’ […]
Consistently attributed to physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who had no time for sloppy thinking, ‘not even wrong’ has become a category […]
If you work in a corporation with headquarters and affiliates, scattered in many places, or with international sites, you will […]
Interrogated by a journalist: ‘Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?’, Mr Gandhi answered: ‘I think that it […]
The traditional thinking about divisional and functional structures within organizations, which were born of the need for specialization and a […]
Cost cutting, cutting to the bone, cutting resources down to the bare minimum is praised as efficient. But it’s not. […]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”, says the Book of Proverbs in the Bible. This quote comes in […]
Way number 1: My team has come up with these three options, A, B and C. Which one do you […]
Readers of my books and clients will be aware that I am not very fond of 360 degree feedback used […]
The trouble with consensus is that it contains all the risks of poor thinking and all the possible cognitive biases, […]
‘The exercise was very rich, everybody participated deeply, the walls were full of flipcharts with stuff. So many ideas floating […]
Some people have a hero within. They have this tremendous ability to mobilise energy, jump in when big issues present, […]
With the best of intentions, to call an organization a Democracy is an abuse of the term, unless of course, […]
Vocation is often defined as ‘a strong feeling’ to do something, a job, a career, an occupation, to dedicate one’s […]
It is said that in any organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I often think that […]
Chinese proverb that is, what else? I wish we could be as crystal clear when it comes to the characteristics […]
‘Science advances by a series of funerals’. This is how John Brockman, founder of The Edge, and editor of a […]
There is so much to fix and manage inside the organization that the task could be never ending. Soon, and […]
A man was leading a caravan of donkeys and crossing the border almost every day, coming back with apparently the […]
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