Despite being repeated thousand times, hiring processes are still quite imperfect. Of course there are many places in which this […]
The oil industry leaders/workers/people in the payroll who triggered the BP oil spill disaster, knew the rules, knew what needed […]
In any organization they are positive deviants (deviants from expected norms, who achieve results ) and other ‘statistical abnormalities’, by […]
Many of us spend quite a lot of our time in what we call ‘work’. The business day has now […]
I must confess I have always been, I suspect one of the very few, uncomfortable with the distinction leader-manager. It […]
‘Science advances by a series of funerals’. This is how John Brockman, founder of The Edge, and editor of a […]
It was a cruel joke form the times of Re-engineering. ‘Here it goes Joe’, started the joke. Then the quote: […]
I remember the time when I was working in Pharmaceuticals (how sad is to start a sentence with ‘I remember […]
If my IT people did not have Google handy, and the ability to ‘ask the forum’, I would not have […]
Dear Mr Welch: I have never been very fond of you. It’s nothing personal. Over the years, I have admired […]
Memo to all functions and Business Partners (HR, OD, L&D, Internal/Corporate Communications, Strategy Units, Finance, Health and Safety, Branding/PR, and […]
An insightful report from the Deloitte Human Capital services entitled ‘Rethinking Talent Management’ (December 2014), reminds us that ‘workforces’ are […]
The organization is a social network. Social networks are conduits of information. There is no doubt that information goes up […]
It’s a new world out there. You’ll realize this truth if you open the windows of your organization and let […]
The old view of the organization is something close to the old concept of a medieval city, where citizenship was […]
‘Discovering’ an old article that I wrote years ago, when I used to have a management column in a monthly […]
I was told sometime, somewhere, by somebody (you can see the strength of my recollection), and then found this again […]
Back to today! Some high calibre neurologists, who, as such, have had access to very special cases of people with […]
There is a tradition of looking into the secrets of successful people such as Warren Buffet. In his case, there […]
Years ago I was talking to a client, a Senior VP in the company, about a project that had to […]
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