December 2014

• Leaving the year behind, I see the next one full of shared possibilities. Merry Christmas!
• Leadership: still the elusive friend that refuses management captivity.
• Thoughts on (de) cluttering, for the Christmas pause
• The ‘Daily Thoughts’ will resume in January, but, daily thinking does not go on holiday. Two notes on our organizational ‘structures’
• A pause to create some space (walking the talk!) But the conversation is still going. Happy holidays!
• The OCD enterprise is, not surprisingly, depressed.
• The best question is the one which has no answer
• Will the last employee in Command and Control Inc/Ltd/Plc/SA please turn off the lights? (But have a good lantern with you)
• The clouds move to follow me; the traffic lights go green when I move
• The pharma company that forgot to display its purpose
• The 3 Grand Ds (‘Direction, Discovery and Destiny’), have also their 3 little personal and powerful ‘d’ sisters.
• What psychoanalysis taught me about root causes: the comfort of finding them is not matched by the quality of their truth
• I make my best clients restless. I make the others comfortable
• There is something only you can do: be yourself. Everything else can be outsourced.
• It takes only one question to know about your model of leadership (and there is always an alternative question, just in case)
• Memo to all corporate supporting functions: You are fired. Reapply now. Lines are open
• To be a better leader, take a holiday from yourself
• ‘Entrepreneurial, start-up spirit’: Can I have one of these, please?
• Human Resources and People in the Payroll, not the same thing anymore.
• A ‘culture of X’ is not the same as a culture of ‘training on X’. Safety is a good example
• The Single Bad Apple behavioural theory: careless about statistical logic
• Leadership’s hearing problems
• Build your own Employee Engagement argument for free. You can’t go wrong.
• External consultants and internal managers share the same four-step ladder of engagment with others.