November 2021

• My solution to a ‘chicken and egg’ problem is the omelette. Deadly serious about this.
• What people think and what people say are occasionally connected. Being aware of this may be lifesaving.
• Don’t read anything that starts with ‘research has shown’.
• The journey: for an Himalayan trip, trust a few good shepherds. Including your company Himalayans
• ‘If you want to revenge someone, prepare two graves’. On leadership and digging.
• Management: by invitation. Unbundle reporting lines and management teams
• Competition glorified: you are not a student, employee or citizen, you are a contestant.
• Human behaviour laws are unfair. Positive or negative consequences are disproportionate to the causes. Get used to it as leader.
• The Descartes legacy. The tyranny of bipolar thinking is always upon us.
• Corporate Change is Corporate Rafting. And Heraclitus knew a thing or two about rivers (tip: change is not ‘created’)
• Bold leadership pays off. It can also be killed by those who are highly paid to be professionally afraid.
• And the frog said, next time buy yourself a thermometer
• The company on a treadmill: devise routine Stress Tests
• The Disruption Religion misses the point: what will not change, and how we can capitalise on it. (2 of 2)
• Change management’s most important announcement: this will not change
• Team Rules: a sample
• Many reorganizations based upon ‘structural problems’ have a name and surname behind
• Will disruptive innovation go backwards?
• Find your own performance recipe. Today, the life cycle of a Best Practice is a week.