October 2020

• The influencers have arrived! What can we do?
• Change management models, on sale
• There are off-the-shelf accounting packages to buy and use. There can’t be such a thing as an off-the-shelf Leadership Development Programme
• God’s answer to somebody who complained to him that they did not win the lottery: “Buy that damned ticket!” (Passionate people, take notice)
• We buy an elephant and then we train the elephant to behave like a gazelle
• This best kept, secret jumpstart, will save you months of pain in people, team reorg and alignment
• 6 types of employees I want (2 of 2): synthesizers, designers and reinventors of wheels
• 6 types of employees I want (1 of 2): craftsmen, entrepreneurs and activists
• My 20 Rules of Leadership
• ‘Paths, not works’. A philosopher’s metaphor that explains well our leadership challenges.
• Plateau is the enemy. Hard work the remedy. Out of plateau the priority.
• I wouldn’t hire anybody who is likely to follow the job description
• Framing is a leadership must (3 of 3): ‘Intention and Outcome’
• Framing is a leadership must (2 of 3): frame the narrative before it frames you
• Compelling narrative and truth are, of course, two different things. Leadership must make them inseparable
• Trophy employees, their company and its useful idiots
• Corporate Botox
• Sustainable? Competitive advantage or disadvantage?
• 4 types of generosity in the workplace. 2 with epidemic potential.
• You want to seek the company of a few rejected people
• The only change worth changing, is people’s lives. Why are we afraid to say it?
• The problem is that all we say is that ‘the problem is’. There is no ‘and’.
• Trust in 3 models. Trust me, it’s simple.
• Measurement: the Dogma. Here are 10 critical thinking principles.
• The cost of checking. Looking at the number one cause of organizational ineffectiveness.
• Children don’t hate (other than broccoli, or the nanny). Then, we all grow up and…
• Introducing behaviours by the back door. The ‘culture of feedback’ example