July 2019

• “There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets”
• Iconic leadership: the illusion of copying a one off
• The 3 Grand Ds (‘Direction, Discovery and Destiny’), have also their 3 little personal and powerful ‘d’ sisters.
• The best question is the one which has no answer
• ‘We have a communication problem’ is not always a good start.
• It takes only one question to know about your model of leadership (and there is always an alternative question, just in case)
• My contradictions are my friends, and they come with me as leader
• 12 simple rules of social change, organizational (culture) or societal (2 of 2)
• 12 simple rules of social change, organizational (culture) or societal (1/2)
• In the War for Attention within your company, you may need a communication ceasefire
• Innovation? Great, but I am not in charge of it!
• Organizations have their own ‘People who like this, also like that’. Their ideology (idea-Logic) may be too crafted. (2/2)
• 10 types of people who challenge the status quo in the organization. The art of dissenting
• ‘Nothing new under the sun’ ? Take off your sun glasses and stop the Valium
• We need the aliens. Everybody needs aliens. Smart aliens who can ask questions and open Pandora boxes for us.
• Micro-behaviours plus peer-to-peer equals social change dynamite
• Work-life balance: the on-off switch is broken, and they don’t make them any more.
• The fastest and best way to build a creative culture: all revealed now
• Accountability holes? Desert spaces? Orphan ideas? Buy the tent, occupy the street.
• Dreams deferred?
• Always manage the verbs, not the nouns: teaming -up, not teams; role-modelling, not role models.
• For any ‘what you say’ there are always many ‘how you say it’. Impact is in the how.