December 2019

• The market for Second Hand Thoughts is flourishing, never been so huge. But outsourcing your mind is the ultimate laziness.
• What psychoanalysis taught me about root causes: the comfort of finding them is not matched by the quality of their truth
• Karaoke Management Consulting
• Seeking unpredictable answers
• Out of the box, in the box, what box? ‘We-need-to-talk-about-boxes’ and other useful personality profiles
• Benchmarking as a health hazard. Cause of managers severe neck pain confirmed
• The hour of Radical Management Thinking. The lines are open.
• Critical Thinking self-test. A 10 point health check for your organization, and yourself
• Decision Analysis and the relentless need to seek, bring and assess options. However…
• The un-reachable workforce. What NGOs with remote operations teach us about organising work
• DADYC? (Do Acronyms Drive You Crazy?)
• The formula about what to do when ‘leadership does not get it’, finally revealed.
• The ‘Great Man’ model of leadership is well and alive, despite largely exaggerated accounts of its death
• Speed or quality; critical thinking or fast decisions: the OR is today unaffordable.
• The usefulness of the useless
• The ‘Keep Moving’ strategy always wins.
• 10 ingredients to cook your strategy
• 10 strategic options
• Status Unfinished: the perfect state of a healthy organization is beta
• It’s official: the single, magic bullet, that characterises good leadership is to back off
• Leadership’s Splendid Expeditions
• “You don’t have to attend every argument to which you are invited”