
Lessons from the Pre-CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual (declassified, in case you wonder). This is how it goes: General Interference with […]
I owe this phrase to John Kerry whom I had the privilege of seeing on his London tour promoting his […]
Louis Gerstner, chairman of IBM from 1993 until 2002, recalls in his autobiography, the company’s use of a competence model […]
Memo to all functions and Business Partners (HR, OD, L&D, Internal/Corporate Communications, Strategy Units, Finance, Health and Safety, Branding/PR, and […]
A book by ex-Microsoft researcher and now MIT prof Kentaro Toyama (Geek Heresy, 20015) is not precisely novel on the topic of […]
At a conference I attended, the very sharp mind of Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, ex HP, ex Nokia, reminded […]
Extracts taken from my book The Flipping Point. A flipping point in the trend for adopting absurd management ideas needs to […]
The snap shot of the company as pictured in an organizational chart, is probably one of the most fictitious works […]
Organizations, like organisms, have embedded mechanisms of survival, of growth and also of self-sabotage These are 3 self-sabotage systems to […]
Interrogated by a journalist: ‘Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?’, Mr Gandhi answered: ‘I think that it […]
“Where there is no vision, the people perish”, says the Book of Proverbs in the Bible. This quote comes in […]
Readers of my books and clients will be aware that I am not very fond of 360 degree feedback used […]
If you look at political marketing, and the place to look for a serious PhD in communications and their segmentation […]
Vocation is often defined as ‘a strong feeling’ to do something, a job, a career, an occupation, to dedicate one’s […]
Working in a ‘non-place place’ can’t deliver inspirations and aspirations. Ideas need infections, not Clinical Isolation Units. Marc Auge is […]
‘Science advances by a series of funerals’. This is how John Brockman, founder of The Edge, and editor of a […]
If you had to build an organization from scratch, or re-design one, you would have options about some models to […]
Crisis are/constitute inflection points. Also M&A, extraordinary organic growth, relocations, and entering new markets. Keep adding. Pain is inevitable, misery […]
The traditional organization is, amongst other things, obsessed with closure. It despises ambiguity and puts a premium on the absolute […]
Nasim Taleb’s Antifragile book has this subtitle: ‘Things that gain from disorder’. This is a model for the new organization […]
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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 […]