June 2014

• The self-management train has left the station. The journey is very bumpy. Arrivals TBD. Watch out for updates
• When the only thing you have is a hammer
• Faster horses
• Maximising, optimising, satisficing
• Make your trade off(s) transparent
• To learn how to create a culture of customer focus, use one.
• The three ‘magic’ words: transparency, clarity and fairness
• So, what do you do Joe?
• Trust is tribal, it’s ‘people like me’, it’s horizontal
• When management is overweight, leadership may be starving
• Not even wrong
• ‘When the sea was calm, all boats alike; showed mastership in floating’
• In need of Netflix irrational logic
• Gene and Tony are coming next week
• Let’s elevate the confusion to a higher level
• Could the ‘global teenager’ teach us about ‘global leadership’?
• Purpose is the new Black (and Solidarity is a building block)
• ‘Bed in ten minutes, you can play till then’, versus ‘You have ten more minutes to play before bed’.
• “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand”
• For leadership, look around, not in research papers
• Gandhi’s concept of Western Civilization
• Initiative fatigue, leading to exhaustion , leading to switching off.
• ‘God, make me chaste, but not yet’
• The great ‘How to’ takeover
• We are not resistant to change
• This company will reboot itself from Friday to Saturday. Apologies, services will be limited during this period.
• Don’t fight an epidemic of bad things. Create a counter-epidemic of good ones.
• Authentically disruptive
• The ultimate form of Employee Engagement is a Company of Volunteers
• ‘You don’t have to attend every argument to which you are invited’