October 2014

• A behavioural epidemic can’t be fought from within. It needs a behavioural counter-epidemic to take over
• ‘Hill-climbing’ as a model for disruptive thinking – Guest blog by Scott E. Fahlman
• Beware of the assumed magic properties of the word ‘Prioritize!’
• ‘What if the problem is me?’ An uncomfortable, key question for leaders
• Four types of Employee Engagement, with the compliments of the German Army
• To stop doing some things is a great source of added value. Try it!
• Full-blown Disruptive Innovation is not the Holy Grail for any business. But injections of Disruptive and Critical Thinking could be life saving.
• There must be a better way (I have good news)
• Fooled by the one-off big event
• ‘Make it work first, then clean it up’ versus ‘Clarify all first, then act’. You Choose!
• John Kotter’s 8 Step Change Management model is the best change model of the last Century. Why this is still alive in 2014 is beyond me.
• My Russian Dolls theory of the organization
• The era of Narcissus
• Iconic leadership: the illusion of copying a one off
• My contradictions are my friends, and they come with me as leader
• Do you have a ‘Chaos Monkey’ in your management system? You should.
• ‘The Dunbar Number’ and ‘Mad Lean Numbers’: a question of the right critical mass of people to make things happen.
• In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire
• ‘We have a communication problem’ is not always a good start.
• It’s possible to change gears, create a Game Plan or align a full team without agonising.
• Competition glorified: you are not a student, employee or citizen, you are a contestant.
• (5/5) ‘Neuro-offerings’ have arrived in our business organizations. Bring as much critical thinking as you can when confronted with ‘scientific references’ and a stack of brain pictures.
• (4/5) Will knowing which parts of the brain fire and change the colours on an fMRI make us better leaders?
• (3/5) Neuro-explanations (Marketing, Leadership, Spirituality, you name it), come in Technicolor, and they sell.
• (2/5) A brief history of Mind Digging. The precursors of the current Neuro-worship and Neurobable. From Psycho-explanations to Neuro-explanations.
• (1/5) Neurobable has discovered business. God help us! The current fascination with the Neuro-Anything, worries me.
• Built to what?
• The One secret of Warren Buffet (tip: it’s not a financial simulation or forecasting software)
• ‘Democratic organization’ means well, but it is an unfortunate term.
• The books I leave behind in airplanes.
• Have as much holidays as you want (just make sure you don’t miss anything)