May 2021

• Change management theories have only interpreted the organizational world. The point, however, is to actually change it.
• Debunking the Myths of Employee Engagement: a land of ‘Emperors with No Clothes’. The six models.
• Confronted with dysfunctionality, reorganization as a solution must be the last resort, not the first
• Some restructuring does not seem part of the solution. Bigger problems continue to appear. And now the Fire Brigade has a permanent seat in the Boardroom.
• What do these have in common? Designing organizations, aquariums and fish soup.
• Organizational structures that (dis) aggregate by design
• Redesigning the organization. This is the best time for an upgrade.
• Listening is more than being silent. Learn to spot the listener and call out the ones who pretend.
• Restructuring to force collaboration, is likely to create more anxiety than collaboration. Structural solutions for behavioural problems hardly work.
• Accountability holes? Desert spaces? Orphan ideas? Buy the tent, occupy the street.
• The moral choices of leadership, courtesy of Pedro, my taxi driver in Panama
• The fastest and best way to build a creative culture: all revealed now
• Entering as a question mark, leaving as a period
• To Scale or not to scale? This is the Shakespearean culture question.
• The world is flat, leadership is global and I want to go home
• 15 things to look for in a culture
• Leave your sandals at the door
• What I learnt from the monks: a little anthropology of leadership and space on one page
• FAQs to myself (about organizational life)
• Not even bottom-up. Certainly not top-down. Lasting organizational change is a polycentric social movement, or it isn’t.