
Four years ago, starting in the Midwest of Ireland and replicating to other parts of the country, a bottom up […]
‘Co-benefit’ is a term broadly used in the Climate Change movement to explain the unintended/extended consequences of actions beyond an […]
In the short term, the health of all of us depends largely on people following public health rules (masks, distance, […]
Following on from one of the topics discussed during yesterday’s thought-provoking webinar on The Myths of Management – leadership and […]
I suggest we aim at a package of shifts in organizational life: a 10 point manifesto, the Remarkable Organization Manifesto […]
There is so much to fix and manage inside the organization that the task could be never ending. Soon, and […]
‘Change management’ usually forgets a vital component: the things that don’t change or need to change, or, indeed, must not […]
I shared yesterday the tragedy of the obvious. The obvious that is so obvious that we don’t see it. Read […]
Business loves inspirational stories. The world of entrepreneurship and leadership constantly draw on stories. Many people love sports analogies. Some […]
This is an anthropology report. We’ve found this tribe: the people all wear the same multi-coloured clothes. They paint their […]
Is this what people want? Singing along with what the Big Gurus have provided? Music and lyrics? Sometimes I feel […]
Back in June 2016, people could walk over floating piers on Lake Iseo (Italy), all covered with yellow material, one […]
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 […]
Consistently over the years, the Edelman’s Trust Barometer has told us that the greatest source of trust inside the organization […]
Mobilizing people. This is another of the Holy Grails (how many have I said we have?) in management. Whether you […]
Change management, or management of change. Thank God there can only be two permutations, because they are the most over-used […]
Jerry B Harvey’s 1974 article “The Abilene Paradox: The Management of Agreement’, contains this vignette. On a hot afternoon visiting […]
With some exceptions, there is no such a thing as single, global, monolithic corporate culture. There is usually a confederation […]
Communicating, triggering behaviours, sustaining them and creating a culture, are all connected, interdependent, overlapping and parts of the chain of […]
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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 […]