December 2020

• Happy Christmas and New Year to the Daily Thoughts Community
• The Irish Health Service’s silent culture revolution was driven by ‘if-not-us-who?’ employees
• Storytelling wins wars whilst everybody else is fighting battles (1 of 3): the ingredients
• The corporate mille-feuille. Layers of initiatives don’t touch each other
• The alternative post-mortem of failed change programmes(5 of 5): we communicate too much
• The alternative Post-mortem of failed change programmes. (4 of 5): Too much vision, not lack of it
• The alternative Post-mortem of failed change programmes. (3 of 5): Antibodies to start with.
• The alternative post-mortem of failed change programmes. (2 of 5): It was fireworks and corporate flash mobs
• The alternative post-mortem of failed change programmes. (1 of 5): There were too many people involved and too much debate. Not the opposite.
• The impact of unintended/extended positive consequences of organizational initiatives maybe bigger than the individual desired outcomes. So who sees them?
• Agree conceptually on values, then abandon the labels as fast as you can and focus on their behavioural translation
• The pharma company that forgot to display its purpose
• A small company is not a big company in small. In the growth from small to big, the trouble is in the middle.
• Imperfect data, imperfect instructions, low predictability, high trust: just a model for business (from boat racing)
• Orphan grenades: the worse form of friendly fire in the organization. Some examples.
• The courage to listen: because it might take us to conclusions different from the ones we have already made
• 12 Rules For A Behavioural Counter-Epidemic To Deal With Covid-19
• Defeatism and cynicism are two toxic sisters that need to be challenged. Every minute of silence is a terrible complicity in the erosion of hope.