
These are the symptoms. Indicators, red flags, culture makers. If you have more than 5, you are in trouble. 6 […]
Extracts taken from my new book ‘The Flipping Point‘. A flipping point in the trend for adopting absurd management ideas needs […]
Some leaders are very good in a crisis. They may or may not acknowledge that, but the adrenaline of the […]
The traditional thinking about divisional and functional structures within organizations, which were born of the need for specialization and a […]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”, says the Book of Proverbs in the Bible. This quote comes in […]
With the best of intentions, to call an organization a Democracy is an abuse of the term, unless of course, […]
Working in a ‘non-place place’ can’t deliver inspirations and aspirations. Ideas need infections, not Clinical Isolation Units. Marc Auge is […]
If you had to build an organization from scratch, or re-design one, you would have options about some models to […]
Nasim Taleb’s Antifragile book has this subtitle: ‘Things that gain from disorder’. This is a model for the new organization […]
The closest thing to designing and building an organization is the designing and building a house. You can build a […]
These are ‘functions’ and ‘structures’ in need of spaces in the organization. You may not be brave enough, or crazy […]
These are the 10 strategic options you have at your disposal all the time, as I use them with my […]
Commenting on the communist legacy, a soviet academic Oleg Bogomolov, who must have known a thing or two about things […]
Let me share with you my 3Ss, where I suggest you put your money: 1. Synthesis. My followers, readers, clients, […]
Change management, or management of change. Thank God there can only be two permutations, because they are the most over-used […]
I must confess I have never been 100% comfortable with the traditional distinction by Warren Bennis between leaders and managers […]
It’s called the Shirky principle, after Clay Shirky, prolific American author of bestsellers such as ‘Here comes everybody’(2008) and ‘Cognitive […]
The war on talent. McKinsey consultants started it with a book of the same title. By focusing on what seemed […]
A few years ago, the BBC broadcast a series called ‘How we built Britain’, presented by the veteran David Dimbleby. […]
‘A year from now, you are all here standing in front of the CEO and you say: we screwed up! […]
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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 […]