
There was a time when the logic of things started with a ‘why’, followed with a ‘what’ and ended in […]
There is a period in child development when children start asking the question ’why?’. They usually seem unsatisfied with one […]
If you have a behaviour/value system and you want to recruit people in a way that this value system is […]
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 […]
The war on talent. McKinsey consultants started it with a book of the same title. By focusing on what seemed […]
William Stafford’s (1914 – 1993) poem reads: The things you do not have to say make you rich, Saying the […]
I can’t remember where I saw this. This is part of the point. It could have been anywhere. But I […]
This week, I offered 10 types of people that challenge the status quo in organizations. I also mentioned that our […]
Who challenges in organizations? People who have nothing to lose People who know that the art of challenging, equals not […]
Deprogramming is a form of management detox. We navigate and work in organizations with a great deal of automatic pilot […]
Do you understand the strategy? Yes Can you see why we need to change, to do anything? Yes Do you […]
We need a revolution in business academia or it will become irrelevant. Apprenticeships are already far greater value than academic […]
An 18 year old paper in social anthropology by Marilyn Strathern (then at Cambridge) had the intriguing title of ‘The […]
Reinventing management to deal with the complexities of the world and, therefore, the complexities of business challenges is something that, […]
Part 1 of 2, First published in November 2015… Who challenges in organizations? People who have nothing to lose People […]
The current theory on the future of management, going around in some circles, (courtesy of Gary Hamel, somebody people pay […]
An organization is super rich in leadership and becomes a Leadership Lab, a School of leaders, if it has three […]
Their worlds and the laws governing them are completely different. Coaching and most management and leadership (team) development are not […]
Whether you are sitting in HR, Organizational Development, or any other corporate function, or simply in a position of management […]
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‘Social Change’ is no longer alien to Executive and Leadership Development. These are social and ‘at scale’ or are not fit for this century.
Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]