September 2020

• Every successful company’s growth contains seeds of failure. At some point, organizational complexity could outweigh the business benefits
• I challenge you with this quiz, when applied to your own organization.
• History is constructed. The leader’s legacy is not retrospective. We build it daily, so we’d better test it.
• The One Global Culture does not exist. But pretending that it does holds us together.
• Casinos don’t have clocks
• Jet Skiing Management vs. Scuba Diving Management
• May I introduce you to our worst enemy? The word average
• Do competence-based management and leadership systems create better managers or leaders? (Sorry for the inconvenient question)
• Memo to all corporate supporting functions: You are fired. Reapply now. Lines are open
• 7 Platitudes in Organizational Life, in need of a very loud ‘really?’ Louder! And some debunking.
• Collaborating across borders needs one thing: borders
• May Change Management have a great funeral
• The Ordinary Irrationals
• The 6 stages of management teams. The origin and evolution of these species on one page.
• Good silos, bad silos are like good cholesterol and bad cholesterol
• Trust is (mostly) horizontal. Our organizations are (mostly) vertical. No wonder…
• Your most important list of personal assets. Take time. Now?
• Note to Internal Communications people: occupy the (corporate) streets.
• ‘Human’ and ‘leadership’ can go together by inviting our demons for dinner.
• Solidarity as a form of organizational culture is both a soft label and a secret weapon.
• Employee Engagement Surveys: Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.
• 10 reasons why you should retire ‘Passion’ from your value system
• Oh, mental frames! How easy to create misery!
• Five spaces that the organizational leader needs to design and nurture
• Covid-19 time. Behavioural Change: the Bad Ideas Collection (1)
• ‘The tyranny of the moment’. Liberating Leaders Wanted.