
New organizations, and old ones in the business of transforming themselves, would be better off learning by heart these two […]
Command and control management has fewer friends, and it’s quite terminally ill as well. The heirs are fighting for a piece […]
We often hear the need to put some order in Division A, or to restructure X and Y by putting […]
Lessons from the Pre-CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual (declassified, in case you wonder). This is how it goes: General Interference with […]
Attention re-structuralists, strategists and people about to be sold a multi-million pound reorganization solution that will solve all those nasty […]
In the previous Daily Thoughts posting, I said that successful growth contains the seeds of its failure. Managing the organizational complexity […]
Most of our organizational problems are behavioural. Structural answers hardly solve behavioural problems. Amalgamating A and B because A and […]
In organizational life we are used to the dichotomy ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom up’, for example, when we talk about change. […]
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 […]
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Extracts taken from my new book The Flipping Point. A flipping point in the trend for adopting absurd management ideas […]