Today, there are more similarities between a teenager in Shanghai and a teenager in Rome, or Singapore and Madrid, or […]
Behavioural /cultural shaping in organizations does not scale up by simply the leaders having the right mindset and motivation. A […]
Many times in my consulting work, I find myself facing this dilemma. Do I involve many people on the client’s […]
Commenting on the communist legacy, a soviet academic Oleg Bogomolov, who must have known a thing or two about things […]
Medium and big organizations tend to use a competence system that segments people by grades and by degree of competence. […]
I am paraphrasing British philosopher Simon Blackburn who said the same about scientists entering the temple of philosophy. There is […]
There was a time when the logic of things started with a ‘why’, followed with a ‘what’ and ended in […]
Clicktivism is the term used to describe the type of pseudo-activism that consists in clicking the ‘Like’ button (Facebook mainly) […]
Let me share with you my 3Ss, where I suggest you put your money: 1. Synthesis. My followers, readers, clients, […]
One of the very frequent questions that I ask my clients is what they can stop doing so that they […]
Some organizations are little versions of Dante’s Inferno with its sign ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’ at the […]
Consistently over the years, the Edelman’s Trust Barometer has told us that the greatest source of trust inside the organization […]
In a massive street demonstration for Anti Something Big, you have the Anti Something Big activists, the Anti Everything, the […]
Mobilizing people. This is another of the Holy Grails (how many have I said we have?) in management. Whether you […]
Change management, or management of change. Thank God there can only be two permutations, because they are the most over-used […]
Months ago, I found myself in front of a large audience composed of the highest ranks of the HR function […]
(1) If the top leadership of the company doesn’t exhibit the values/behaviours that you want to instill in the culture, […]
The historical existence of several layers of management in any organization may be related to its size. In a command […]
I must confess I have never been 100% comfortable with the traditional distinction by Warren Bennis between leaders and managers […]
There is an ‘Accidental Literature for Leaders’. I call this my compilation of poems or pieces of narrative that are […]
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