September 2016

• Business discovers the ‘social movement’ language. I hope we don’t corporatize it.
• When your organization not only has good leadership but is a Leadership Lab, a live School for Leaders, we are talking serious cutting edge.
• Speak from a position of strength, not of arrogance. But do you really know what that position is?
• Prolonged agony in reorganizations, is simply bad management
• ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ needs more diverse thinking. If people could take out their PC hat, deeper conversations would emerge.
• In the organization, human capital interventions need to be split into those which scale and those which don’t.
• Corporate language shapes the tribe. Good or bad, you are stuck with it.
• The Descartes legacy. The tyranny of bipolar thinking is always upon us.
• The ‘Non Strategy’ strategy is now a mainstream concept worth studying. And we have a benchmark.
• The ‘what’s the strategy’ question after six months of having one.
• Happiness in the organization is an outcome not an input. Prescribing happiness is a behavioural nonsense.
• The cult of issues. The culture in which airtime is dominated by problems and where navel-gazing is king
• WEIRD = Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic. Our management education is crafted in this model
• ‘Leave it with me’ is a magic behaviour. Spontaneous ‘jumping in’ and help, if widespread, is like winning the lottery.
• The courage to listen: because it might take us to conclusions different form the ones we have already made
• Orphan grenades: the worse form of friendly fire in the organization. Some examples.
• The Zeus of Management is a god called They.
• Post-Truth Era: organizational life, please close the windows; stay indoors.
• Your opinion, your input or your expertise, please. Or just talking. 4 different things we often mix up.
• Employee Disengagement (part 2). A cheap experiment to test your test.
• Employee Disengagement is far more interesting than Employee Engagement. And they are not a mirror. There are 4 types (part 1)
• 4 types of company cultures and their journeys under internal or external pressures. Stealing from Network Theory
• ‘Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay’. Winning by making less errors, and other digressions.
• The garbage collection problem (in organizations)