September 2019

• No revolutions here, we are corporate. Is corporate life shielded in the Era of the Unpredictable?
• Full-blown Disruptive Innovation is not the Holy Grail for any business. But injections of Disruptive and Critical Thinking could be life saving.
• Don’t go to Abilene. Nobody wants to.
• Corporate culture? Start with subcultures, find the tribes, and look for the unwritten rules of their dynamics.
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Killers (in the organization)
• Faster horses
• For leadership, look around, not in research papers
• A 6th Century Leadership Manual starts with the word ‘Listen!’
• Emotional Ignorance needs a book
• The things you do not have to say make you rich
• Write a script, not a strategic plan
• The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘Powerful Oversimplifications’
• 10 reasons why leaders need to focus on the (un-managing of the) informal organization
• ‘Social Change’ is no longer alien to Executive and Leadership Development. These are social and ‘at scale’ or are not fit for this century.
• The missing word in the famous Margaret Mead quote
• A 3 point leadership strategy for your transformation, small t, big T.
• An alternative competence system for an alternative HR. Ignore at your peril.
• Possibly the most important tribe in the organization is The Brokers.
• Reacting on the spot, and responding in agility mode can be engineered and role-modelled.
• ‘Forget what they say, observe what they do’. The ‘uniqueness paradox’ revisited. A bit.
• Joining a cause’, vs. ‘being employed’. Can you articulate the reason for your enterprise?
• Leadership dialects: you are supposed to join a party, but don’t get an invitation
• ‘Sceptical people and enemies of change need to be sidelined’. Really?
• To Scale or not to scale? This is the Shakespearean culture question.
• There is nothing I can do’ must be fought before it becomes collective belief.
• Employee loyalty is a plural. Leadership is the host of that plurality, always an irrational mix