August 2021

• ‘Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig’
• And they all gave one day of their holidays
• For any organizational solution, we bring along extra problems. The system always kicks back.
• The Lego and the Jigsaw: two ways to build an organization
• Yes, there is a new workplace now. It’s called culture.
• The leader is not an answerphone. Or a help desk.
• The pilgrimage to the top of the Leadership Mountain to ask for permission, blessings and a bit of gratification
• Being compelled to react, does not make you a good leader. The clue, and the winning, is in the number of problems that you decide not to address.
• The burning platform was the greatest management invention. Now, can we move on?
• Management technique: the transplant
• I’m now of an age when I only want to work with people who want to change the world
• Monochrome cultures (and their Royal Courts)
• Companies with ‘autoimmune disease’: difficult treatment and poor prognosis
• Empowerment: the muddle. The wrong conversation, until you start unpacking the concept and dismantling the house of buzzwords
• 12 simple rules of social change, organizational (culture) or societal (2/2)
• 12 simple rules of social change, organizational (culture) or societal (1/2)
• This company will reboot itself from Friday to Saturday. Apologies, services will be limited during this period.
• The most dangerous character in the organization’s plot: The Self-Proclaimed Saviour.
• Too busy getting ready, no time to go