January 2017

• Peer-to-Peer networks are the strongest force of action
• Don’t preach diversity, practice it. Start with mundane process rules.
• End of Week Summary: Activism
• ‘If’, the poem. (Management version circa. 2017)
• Thank God for management stereotypes. They solve many of our thinking problems (for lousy managers, that is)
• Thinking abdicated
• Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ was not in the script.
• Don’t preach diversity, practice it. Start with mundane process rules.
• Corporate grammar could learn from Obama’s spelling guidelines
• End of Week Summary: Peer-to-Peer Influence
• Along came a spider.
• In ‘people like us’ we trust, others must try harder, and leaders should go to the optometrist.
• Is leadership so elusive? Or only in the hands of academics?
• Archaeologists usually don’t build houses. We have lots of archaeologists on the payroll
• End of Week Summary: Social Movements
• The Daily Me, information bubbles, and keeping sane.
• Bold leadership pays off. It can also be killed by those who are highly paid to be professionally afraid
• Obama’s farewell speech has calls to actions relevant to organizations. Most can be summarised: take charge, get involved.
• Quick self-test on guts to call out non-compliance.
• Thought leadership is making people think, or there is not much thought or leadership. Maybe journalistic leadership?
• The only change worth changing, is people’s lives. Why are we afraid to say it?
• Week end Summary: Truth, Rumours and Dragon’s Den. A critical thinking trio
• Trust is (mostly) horizontal. Our organizations are (mostly) vertical. No wonder…
• Behaviours are the syntax of the organization. Values are the grammar. Your space in the world is the story.
• When I hear ‘this is a culture of consensus’, my Trouble Detector starts blipping
• Forward to the Past: If this is what your brand-new strategy smells like, do the honourable thing. Kill it.
• Happy New Year! Good to see you again. Just checking in.