August 2017

• ‘Nothing new under the sun’ ? Take off your sun glasses and stop the Valium
• ‘The Dunbar Number’ and ‘Mad Lean Numbers’: a question of the right critical mass of people to make things happen.
• If you want to increase employee engagement and employee satisfaction, increase your company performance (yes, the order is not a typo)
• If you have anything to do with developing leaders don’t kid yourself. These ones had never gone, and one who didn’t want to be, is in.
• End of week Summary – some thoughts on behavioural change & culture
• There must be a better way (I have good news)
• Innovation? Great, but I am not in charge of it!
• We need the aliens. Everybody needs aliens. Smart aliens who can ask questions and open Pandora boxes for us.
• ‘Jeff Bezos assures Amazon Employees that HR is working 100 Hours a week to address their complaints’ (that they are working 100 hours a week)
• If you needed to remember only one classification of people: ‘external and internal locus of control’
• A behavioural epidemic can’t be fought from within. It needs a behavioural counter-epidemic to take over
• “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
• Last in my holiday readings. Here is the plot.
• 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
• 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