
‘Meetings’ and ‘teams’ are two different things. Team equals meeting, is a cancer. Our language has been perverted. ‘Let’s bring […]
This is my rephrasing of ‘The army is now fully prepared for the previous war’, inspired by John Gall, in his […]
For every community struggling to achieve something, and deciding to launch some form of collective action; for every minority that […]
In organizational life we are used to the dichotomy ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom up’, for example, when we talk about change. […]
Four years ago, starting in the Midwest of Ireland and replicating to other parts of the country, a bottom up […]
In the short term, the health of all of us depends largely on people following public health rules (masks, distance, […]
At some people’s request, I am revising an old Daily Thoughts on ‘solidarity’ in the work place. Solidarity is one […]
A CEO asked me recently: what do you do with a manager who does not embrace or support change, in […]
I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in organizational life: a 10 point manifesto, the Remarkable Organization Manifesto […]
If you look at political marketing, and the place to look for a serious PhD in communications and their segmentation […]
There is a big difference between copying and reverse engineering. Many people in business wish they could copy the great […]
This is an anthropology report. We’ve found this tribe: the people all wear the same multi-coloured clothes. They paint their […]
A social movement is not a bunch of people, even hundreds, or thousands, moving socially. A social movement needs a […]
“A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.”—Fred Ross Fred Ross (1910-1992) American community […]
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 […]
(1) If the top leadership of the company doesn’t exhibit the values/behaviours that you want to instill in the culture, […]
Moses’ leadership was bad. He promised his people a land of milk and honey. Instead, they got a terrible hike […]
That was Nietzsche on change management! It goes to the core of the issue of how we all try to […]
Henry Ford said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ‘Faster horses strategies’ […]
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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 […]