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Social Movements
Can We Rescue DEI From Its Trap (The Label)?
Most of the problems and challenges in organizations, together with most of the solutions, are behavioural in nature. It’s about […]
Culture change is not long and difficult. But we make it so…
I suppose the question is how long is long and how difficult is difficult? In general, business and organizational consulting have […]
A Cheat Sheet To Create A Social Movement Tip = to shape organizational culture since both are the same.
Mobilizing people. This is another of the Holy Grails (how many have I said we have?) in management. Whether you […]
A culture of safety or a culture of training in safety?
Cultures are created by behaviours becoming the norm. Safety is at the core of many industries. Significant budgets are allocated […]
3 self-sabotaging mechanisms in organizations
Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage. These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]
Tell what won’t change – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change
In any change programme that any organization wants to start, they will start by thinking of the things that they […]
Scale It – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change
When creating effective change in any organization, there are 40 rules that, in my experience, are the key between success […]
Assets & Strengths Base – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change
For more than 30 years I have been involved in ‘change’ in organizations. Again and again, some fundamental principles, and often […]
We need teaming up, not more teams
‘Meetings’ and ‘teams’ are two different things. Team equals meeting, is a cancer. Our language has been perverted. ‘Let’s bring […]
Listen, people. I’ve got good news! The company is now fully prepared for the past
This is my rephrasing of ‘The army is now fully prepared for the previous war’, inspired by John Gall, in his […]
For every ‘I have a dream’, there are thousands of ‘are you serious?’
For every community struggling to achieve something, and deciding to launch some form of collective action; for every minority that […]
Not even bottom-up. Certainly not top-down. Lasting organizational change is a polycentric social movement, or it isn’t.
In organizational life we are used to the dichotomy ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom up’, for example, when we talk about change. […]
The Irish Health Service’s silent culture revolution was driven by ‘if-not-us-who?’ employees
Four years ago, starting in the Midwest of Ireland and replicating to other parts of the country, a bottom up […]
12 Rules For A Behavioural Counter-Epidemic To Deal With Covid-19
In the short term, the health of all of us depends largely on people following public health rules (masks, distance, […]
Solidarity as a form of organizational culture is both a soft label and a secret weapon.
At some people’s request, I am revising an old Daily Thoughts on ‘solidarity’ in the work place. Solidarity is one […]
What do I do with a resistant manager? Find five non-resistant colleagues, then…
A CEO asked me recently: what do you do with a manager who does not embrace or support change, in […]
10 shifts in the Remarkable Organization in the making (wishful ideas)
I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in organizational life: a 10 point manifesto, the Remarkable Organization Manifesto […]
Segment, segment, segment. Add these three words to the dictionary of Internal Communications.
If you look at political marketing, and the place to look for a serious PhD in communications and their segmentation […]
Don’t transplant or import a successful management model; reverse engineer it, then pause
There is a big difference between copying and reverse engineering. Many people in business wish they could copy the great […]
Tribal brands that teach us a lesson
This is an anthropology report. We’ve found this tribe: the people all wear the same multi-coloured clothes. They paint their […]
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