December 2016

• Best Of Daily Thoughts 2016 Countdown: The Top 3
• The Best Of Daily Thoughts 2016 Countdown 10-4
• Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (5/5) Forget robust and forget the tanks. It’s guerrilla and its gazelle/cheetah/falcon in the project team.
• Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (4/5) If you are not in crisis, reboot. Declare inflection points. That’s readiness.
• Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (3/5) The real readiness trick is behavioural. The rest is commentary.
• Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (2/5) Readiness is the new capability (just don’t ask what for) and it has four drivers.
• Daily Thoughts run up to end of the year (1/5) You never let a crisis go to waste
• 3 Daily Thoughts on: Culture
• 3 Daily Thoughts on: Leadership
• The leader is not an answerphone. Or a help desk.
• The curious case of management bad sync: the video and the audio don’t match
• No revolutions here, we are corporate. Is corporate life shielded in the Era of the Unpredictable?
• Management may be getting a free upgrade to leadership. It’s time to review these categories.
• ‘The truth will set you free’, the Bible says. Using a Baloney Detection Kit will keep you sane.
• This time it’s personal, actually.
• My soft stuff/test results: 3 Plus, 3 Minus, 3 Grr!
• Bonkers is the new black. New management ideas for the NHS are that kind of black.
• Preach your values all the time, when necessary use words
• Five spaces that the organizational leader needs to design and nurture
• The Self-Induced Complexity Kingdom (SICK) in organizations looks sometimes like a conspiracy