July 2021

• ‘Sustainable but not too much’ is the best state of the healthy organization
• My last Employee Engagement model (7/7): Activists on the payroll.
• Employee Engagement as morally imperative. (6/7) A forgotten model?
• Employee Engagement Models continue (5/7): ‘The Investors metaphor’.
• More on Employee Engagement (4/7): ‘The Cause’. Engagement with the company or within the company?
• Employee Engagement (and debunking) continues. (3/7): The Happy Cows model
• Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement (2/7): Giving employees a voice. So, now we have a choir. And then what?
• The ‘initiative’ often lets personal commitment off the hook
• For every problem, the Victorians had a building
• The Returning Bomber Paradox: a case of reframing the problem. More on Critical Thinking.
• Critical thinking in the organization is fitness, health and fresh air, all in one
• ‘Invert, always invert’: a fundamental, zero-cost, unstuck management technique
• The painting is a beautiful, delicate masterpiece. The artist’s workshop is a mess.
• Company vs. Community. Digging the roots of words for a possible reunion.
• But what do they think? What do they want us to do? Why don’t they just tell us?
• All the roads lead to Rome, but mind the axle of the car
• The unsaid and unsayable are at the deeper layers of culture
• The cult of issues. The culture in which airtime is dominated by problems and where navel-gazing is king
• A tsunami of navel-gazing, force 11, is impacting business, society and politics. And individual identity.
• Sharing thoughts, being carriers, and why there are no idiots anymore
• Walking e-bays bearing second hand thoughts
• Where is home? A serious management question to employees