January 2020

• On the day the UK leaves the European Union
• The organization’s collective self-belief is often hidden. Leaders need to hear the unsaid.
• My Stockholm (airport) Syndrome
• The ‘who-does-what’ and the ‘who-knows-what’ models of the organization, lead to different worlds.
• Let’s elevate the confusion to a higher level
• Create inflection points when you don’t need one. It’s better than waiting for the inflection points to come to you.
• Stay in beta
• Organizational Decluttering: A crusade in waiting that may need you as leader
• I want companies with Post Traumatic Strength Disorder. Untreated.
• Disruptive innovation, like charity, starts at home. Your mind and your people, that is. The rest is the easy part.
• Darling, what are your expectations today? Or why do we talk Martian in business?
• Too-too land is a prison and too-too managers are its guards. This is what life there looks like.
• Permission to be human
• Biography of a Flipchart
• Surprise!
• Leaders as architects: how to build the house, page one
• Alibi to keep the status quo: ‘We are a regulated industry’
• Your mind may trick you, the truth will set you free
• Stickiness: the highest, inconvenient management challenge
• ‘When the sea was calm, all boats alike; showed mastership in floating’
• When the only thing you have is a hammer
• Take over a grey area, adopt an orphan project, sponsor an idea in exile
• Single track thinking, the road to a sure end (if you don’t care whether it’s the right end or the wrong end)
• ‘Memorable’ is beautiful. ‘Exceeding expectations’ is sad, tired, and as charismatic as a dead fish
• The ‘initiative’ often lets personal commitment off the hook
• Five ‘structures’ in search of a corporate space. Leaders, this is your homework