February 2020

• If you marry a summary, you’ll breed bullet points. Life becomes much easier, if hardly real.
• Heroes on the payroll: the good news and the bad news
• Segment, segment, segment. Add these three words to the dictionary of Internal Communications.
• Madam, the ribbon is free.
• ‘Democratic organization’ means well, but it is an unfortunate term.
• Reclaiming a concept that has lost weight in the business organization: vocation
• The Twentypercenters
• “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”
• Some working places are ‘non-places’, and as inspiring as Clinical Isolation Units
• Games or Rituals? Anthropology inside the company has valuable things to say
• Science advances by a series of funerals. And some management practices are not feeling very well
• Navel-gazing (Nombrilisme in French, sounds much better) is constant in the organization. The issue is not to deny it, but to fight it.
• ‘Change management’ the forgotten statement: this will not change
• The Tragedy of the Obvious (part 2). The obvious things in the ‘management of change’ (and still we can’t see the donkeys)
• The Tragedy of the Obvious
• Empowerment is an output. If you can visualize it, you can craft it.
• Stuck is the worst status. Worse than being wrong.
• Not all high caffeine shots of motivation work well. Inspirational stories have pros and cons
• We, ourselves are the biggest exporters of problems in the organizations we work for
• Don’t transplant or import a successful management model; reverse engineer it, then pause
• Tribal brands that teach us a lesson
• Defining ourselves by what we are against, does not advance the cause of the for
• Lead in Poetry, manage in Prose