November 2016

• The ‘quick win-win’ theory, and tactics, often lead to people being put off quickly
• ‘If there are no nurses, I don’t want to be part of your revolution’
• What about a little epidemic of generosity in our organizations?
• A tsunami of navel-gazing, force 11, is impacting business, society and politics. And individual identity.
• Leadership scaffolding. Let’s try this mental model
• Three Daily Thoughts for a quick catch up and reflection
• No more change please, we need change-ability.
• Sustainable? Competitive advantage or disadvantage?
• Here is the good news: good values, translated into behaviours, are contagious.
• Your mental frame, as defined by words, will dictate your actions. Even your values. Words are dictators.
• Wicked Problems? Bad news. Prevent.
• ‘Agency’ won the US election. Leaders of all sorts, politics and not, take note.
• The birth of Behavioural Politics? (And Big Data has gone to the doctor for a check up).
• The answer to Trumpism: get involved, call out the in-human, the non-truth. Start inside the organization.
• I’ve seen another Black Swan and it’s Blonde. And he has grabbed America by the polls. And I’ve seen it on 9/11.
• Give them an A. Then ask them to justify it.
• Rumours in the organization spread faster than light. Find your shelter and scrutinize. Then, call them out.
• Defeatism and cynicism are two toxic sisters that need to be challenged. Every minute of silence is a terrible complicity in the erosion of hope.
• Running organizations like a permanent Dragons’ Den is not my idea of good management.
• 25 facets of a Project Leader in a large organization (spoilt for choice)
• What do I do with a resistant manager? Find five non-resistant colleagues, then…
• Best Practice is dead and Benchmarking is not feeling very well