January 2015

• A heroic culture is a sick culture. If the company can only be run on heroic mode, call the doctor. But heroes, individually, are welcome.
• Richard Branson says ‘Complexity is our enemy’. He is wrong. The only enemy of complexity is in our minds’ inability to manage it.
• The organization? It may be complex but it does not have to be complicated. Some simple critical thinking questions may go a long way.
• The 3.45 pm syndrome: diagnosis and treatment, free of charge.
• A small company is not a big company in small. In the growth from small to big, the trouble is in the middle.
• Organizing, mobilizing, engaging: Harvard Business School or 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? My choice is clear
• Customer memo to corporate: Not in my name.
• Slow, tired, unexpected crashes, not enough memory, poor battery: I mean your company, not your laptop. You need an upgrade.
• The curious practice of ‘taking responsibility’ in the form of resigning and passing the monkey
• Critical thinking in the organization is fitness, health and fresh air, all in one.
• Memo to Mr Jack Welch’s about his ‘10 lessons in leadership’.
• Note to Internal Communications people: occupy the (corporate) streets.
• Organizing, mobilizing, orchestrating: these are ‘Managing’, 2015 version.
• Speed or quality; critical thinking or fast decisions: the OR is today unaffordable.
• There are off-the-shelf accounting packages to buy and use. There can’t be such a thing as an off-the-shelf Leadership Development Programme
• Leadership is not a HR topic. It’s also not outsource-able. You are stuck with it.
• 10 Ways to slow poisoning an organization (part 4 &5 /5) More plots, end of story
• More plots in the script library: 10 Ways to slow poisoning an organization (part 3/5)
• 10 Ways to slow poisoning an organization (part 2/5) More scripts and plots
• 10 Ways to slow poisoning an organization (part 1/5) First plots.
• 2015 Number one leadership asset: self-criticism. Number two: unlearning. Number three…
• The LinkedIn half-paradox is connecting with people already connected with you. But the strength of connectivity lies in a ‘Weak Link In’, not in a ‘Strong Link In’.
• The trouble with ‘happiness’ in business: ultimate goal or oil for the machine? None of the above? Or not the business of business?
• ‘It looks like a Bell Curve. It must be a HR Performance Appraisal’. Not in this Century. Normal distributions are dead
• Trespasses will be recruited: a four-word strategy in the Battle of Ideas
• Create fast innovation spaces: kindle ideas in your own Lab126
• One single behavior can create a revolution. It would work both, inside and outside the company.