June 2021

• 20 reasons why I trust you
• Preach your values all the time, when necessary use words
• Thesaurus – based value and behaviours systems are meaningless, exhausted and cheap
• Values don’t pre-exist, their behaviours do, then values are born, e.g. there is no such thing as kindness.
• Memo: Permission never required, so don’t ask
• A new word for corporate life: de-corporatization
• The minority tyranny in the organization
• ‘How can we make this fail?” is a more powerful question than its opposite
• Pope Francis’ description of the 15 diseases of the Catholic Church administration apparatus (Curia) says a lot about the universal traps of human organizations
• Lose control, to gain more control: Starting the Control Diet
• Lose control, to gain more control: The paradox and the symptoms
• Collective Leadership: Two Acid Tests
• One disruptive culture shift, five outcomes. At least. The 30/30 to 3/3 ‘unreasonable shift’.
• Management upside down: global is local, leadership goes grassroots, top is at the bottom and traditional management needs a retirement party
• Can anybody dispel the mystery for me, please? Who are ‘they’?
• Full of Embassies: The company is not an Internal Diplomatic Service
• Strong thinkers are critical thinkers. Critical thinking can be embedded in the culture.
• The 4 hats of leadership in the modern organization
• Top Influencers 2, Top Leadership 1 (Hierarchical power in the organization is half of the ‘peer-to-peer’ power)
• Corporate culture as a social movement
• John Kotter’s 8 Step Change Management model is the best change model of the last Century. Why this is still alive in 2021 is beyond me.
• Here is the good news: good values, translated into behaviours, are contagious