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Leadership’s Splendid Expeditions
“The history of mankind might be described by a cynic as a series of splendid expeditions towards the wrong goal […]
Could the ‘global teenager’ teach us about ‘global leadership’?
Today, there are more similarities between a teenager in Shanghai and a teenager in Rome, or Singapore and Madrid, or […]
Steal ideas, implant with caution, observe, tweak, observe again, never close your eyes.
Innovation and renewal requires your windows open to the world. Plenty of organizations out there are experimenting with models, far […]
The corrosion of logic: from ‘why-what-how’, to ‘how, what, maybe why’.
There was a time when the logic of things started with a ‘why’, followed with a ‘what’ and ended in […]
The great ‘How to’ takeover
There is a period in child development when children start asking the question ’why?’. They usually seem unsatisfied with one […]
‘To save everything, click here’, and its version inside the company
Clicktivism is the term used to describe the type of pseudo-activism that consists in clicking the ‘Like’ button (Facebook mainly) […]
Dear Business Development candidate: tell me about the things you have developed in life
If you have a behaviour/value system and you want to recruit people in a way that this value system is […]
‘What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not’.
This phrase is attributed to the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who also described some arguments or theories as so bad that […]
We work with them very closely, we are very familiar with each other, that is why perhaps we don’t know each other well
Months ago, I found myself in front of a large audience composed of the highest ranks of the HR function […]
3 Inconvenient truths about leadership and change
(1) If the top leadership of the company doesn’t exhibit the values/behaviours that you want to instill in the culture, […]
His greatest success was not to fail
Many people, many of them in high managerial positions, succeed by avoiding failure. They become unmemorable by design. A new […]
Preserving the problem when dedicated to finding the solution.
It’s called the Shirky principle, after Clay Shirky, prolific American author of bestsellers such as ‘Here comes everybody’(2008) and ‘Cognitive […]
Two wrong Talent Wars
The war on talent. McKinsey consultants started it with a book of the same title. By focusing on what seemed […]
The only common feature that successful companies share, is that they are not failing.
Management Theory (if there is one) and management practice are not physics. We don’t have very solid data about what […]
I want to import this ‘act of kindness’ into business life
I know of a brilliant medical doctor who, in front of a worried patient, perhaps with some imaginary worries, perhaps […]
‘Forget what they say, observe what they do’. The ‘uniqueness paradox’ revisited. A bit.
Some people in organizations believe that they are working in a very bureaucratic, hierarchical, political and rigid environment. Many of […]
In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire
Our faith in communication is enormous. Why? Perhaps because we know well the problems associated with the lack of communication. […]
10 types of people who challenge the status quo in the organization. The art of dissenting
Who challenges in organizations? People who have nothing to lose People who know that the art of challenging, equals not […]
We need the aliens. Everybody needs aliens. Smart aliens who can ask questions and open Pandora boxes for us.
The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person […]
Work-life balance: the on-off switch is broken, and they don’t make them any more.
Forget work-life balance. It was a good concept that did a lot of good but has now retired. It cannot […]
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