October 2021

• The ‘Training ex Machina’ delusion. Beware of training solutions for all seasons.
• Is leadership so elusive or only in the hands of academics?
• Why getting rid of inefficient processes in the organization is so hard. Anthropology explains it.
• The 51 week problem
• Articulating your core belief system, plus finding your ‘Space in the world’. The re-framing of the company steering wheel (4 and 5 of 5)
• From Values to Non-negotiable Behaviours. Continuing the reframing of the company steering system. (3 of 5)
• The Organizational Logic: the basic people algorithms that steer the navigation. Reframing the company steering system. (2 of 5)
• Beyond mission and vision …and the rest. Reframing the company steering system in 2021. (1 of 5)
• Obituary: Incrementalism
• Amateurs borrow, professionals steal
• Some companies are run as a Permanent Focus Group
• Purpose kidnapped?
• Purpose is always in the basement
• If the business is the mission, culture is the strategy
• What is the ‘model of the world’ in this organization?
• Some company cultures are works of fiction. Some leadership teams ‘harrypotter’ a narrative that nobody else recognizes.
• 10 principles behind culture, behind ‘Employer Branding’, and behind anything that has to do with the DNA of an organization
• Most ‘I’m just doing my job’ people, are not doing their jobs
• Childhood ‘monsters under the bed’ never go away. They seem to reappear in corporations. Without the beds.