July 2016

• A few Daily Thoughts you may want to catch up with
• Blair, leading, and the discussion I did not intend to have
• Have your Big White Board of Distractions in front of you. Keep your list very fresh. Then, execute the strategy.
• Dr Kate Grange, R.I.P. Hello, my name is Leandro Herrero
• Two types of Exiled Executives: Nostalgic and Nomadic
• Zoology language in management. The organization as a zoo?
• Here we go again. Another month another Employee Engagement revelation and another Confirmation Bias
• Cultural fit = non negotiable + compatible dreams
• Inquiring, inquisitive and restless minds: positions permanently open in your organization.
• Uncertainty, vulnerability and control are the three sisters dominating our lives.
• The most powerful leadership instructions are the ones that are unsaid
• In management of change, as in leadership of organizations, ‘every day is Election Day’
• Human behaviour laws are unfair. Positive or negative consequences are disproportionate to the causes. Get used to it as leader.
• The ‘operating system’ of the company shapes people’s behaviours and this may take over ‘culture’
• The Yellow Life jacket Communication Problem in organizations. May I have your attention, please.
• Shifting the narrative: one of the finest roles of leadership
• My 20 Rules of Leadership
• What they don’t teach you in Business Schools about financial management: managing resources you don’t own or control.
• The 19th Century Great Man Theory of history is still well alive in our understanding of leadership in organizations.
• Compelling narrative and truth are, of course, two different things. Leadership must make them inseparable
• The ‘Blair’s Fundamental Error’ of leadership (it’s not political)
• ‘Every Corpse on Everest was once an extremely motivated person’
• Find your own performance recipe. Today, the life cycle of a Best Practice is a week
• We are all HR. So, we’d better upgrade ourselves. A lot of HR is deja vu
• No single discipline has the answer anymore. There is no escape. Read and re-skill like mad.
• Creating a Gender and Race, Diversity and Inclusion programme? A culture of Diversity-Full-Stop will be your most powerful engine.