February 2015

• The hour of Radical Management Thinking. The lines are open.
• Critical Thinking self-test. A 10 point health check for your organization, and yourself
• Management (Education) as Sorcery? Just plagiarizing a dead professor.
• Standing out, standing for, sameness and differentiation. Just thinking aloud
• My friends, the monks, secret weapon: the asterisk. I want 2015 Leadership with tons of them.
• Trivialising management recipes won’t get us anywhere. ‘Having fun’ comes at the top of the ridiculous. Referring to the NHS is ludicrous.
• But what do they think? What do they want us to do? Why don’t they just tell us?
• Scott Adams/Dilbert thinks that ‘passion’ in business success is overrated. He has a point. ‘Passion’ is a beautiful trap.
• God’s answer to somebody who complained to Him that he did not win the lottery: ‘Buy that damned ticket!’ (Passionate people, take notice)
• The only Employee Questionnaire you’ll ever need. Copyright policy: please use, copy, distribute, forward, reuse.
• Employee Engagement Surveys: Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.
• HR competence systems need two things: a diet, and a dose of honesty
• Seeking unpredictable answers.
• Power creates serious optical problems. It makes you blind. It does it in the family, in the church, in the street, in the bedroom and the boardroom
• Choosing between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility
• Introducing behaviours by the back door. The ‘culture of feed back’ example
• Don’t read this post, it’s not really interesting
• Five inconvenient truths (AKA what doesn’t matter) about creating an organizational culture (Create a social movement). Cheat Sheet, part 2.
• A Cheat Sheet to create a social movement (Tip = to shape organizational culture, since both are the same)
• Pope Francis description of the 15 diseases of the Catholic Church administration apparatus (Curia) says a lot about the universal traps of human organizations.
• One Disruptive Culture Shift, five Outcomes. At least. The 30/30 to 3/3 ‘unreasonable shift’.
• Research is a Google search repeated. ‘Hominem unius Google timeo’ (you may need to Re-Google this)
• 10 reasons why you should scrap annual performance appraisals. Pick one.
• Culture change is not long and difficult. This myth is self-perpetuated. This emperor has no clothes. The emperor is freezing.
• Time to bring in a 77th Brigade to Corporate, Internal and External communications.
• Out of the box, in the box, what box? ‘We-need-to-talk-about-boxes’ and other useful personality profiles
• If skimming is the new reading, critical thinking in organizations will become even harder. Start your own ‘Read-it-all-Movement’.
• Backstage Leadership™ ‘ is key to collective leadership, a cornerstone of the modern organization