June 2016

• How to create collaboration? Parachute people in who collaborate a lot
• If you ask people for input they will expect you do something with it, not to disappear in limbo
• Where are all these people coming from for the meeting? Their previous, unrelated meetings have the key for yours
• Imperfect data, imperfect instructions, low predictability, high trust: just a model for business (from boat racing)
• The room was filled with smoke, no windows, I had to leave. The day I deleted my LinkedIn post for the first time
• Certainty! Or reduced uncertainty! We all can practise it. Not rocket science, just zero cost behavioural science.
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Killers (in the organization)
• What is the point? Probably the best answer is when ‘there isn’t any’.
• In organizations, self-inflicted pain and negative thinking are not personal. The infection works like passive smoking.
• I’d love to run this experiment in a hospital.
• Built to what?
• Heroic corporate stories build motivation for a future. Routine stories of achievement show that the future is already here.
• ‘Sustainable but not too much’ is the best state of the healthy organization
• Corporate Change is Corporate Rafting. And Heraclitus knew a thing or two about rivers (tip: change is not ‘created’)
• People who perform and live in Formal Org Land, and people who have make/break power: two different lists
• The New Classics of Management (2 of 2)
• The New Classics of Management. (1 of 2)
• From VUCA with love: your HR toolkits have expired; those versions are not supported anymore (try eBay)
• The Stopping Rule in organizations, where the meaning of life may be 37
• It’s cool to think. It’s not cool to do crap things. (2) Can we think better in ‘Employee Engagement’?
• There are always trade-offs. If you or your people have a plan, a great plan, without trade-offs in, it’s not a good plan.
• ‘One problem, one visit’. My primary care physician’s screen in the waiting room says. I am revolted.
• There is no ‘readiness’. Go, go, go; people will get ready.
• Dont let Tuesdays be shaped by Mondays