April 2016

• Produce as many bad ideas as you can. The statistics will be in your favour and a very good idea will come up.
• The new employees who never left their previous one
• Rule #3: Systematic use of sweeping generalizations is reason for dismissal
• HBR says culture is not the culprit, and, by the way, you can’t fix it. Yes we can.
• ‘Human’ and ‘leadership’ can go together by inviting our demons for dinner.
• Leadership is an amoral praxis. How about this to start a conversation?
• Managerially educated, template rich, model expert. And now what? Ah! That hernia!
• The Zeus strategy: de-aggregating the problem
• Fixed ideas. From a guest blogger who knows.
• A new word for corporate life: de-corporatization
• Unchallenged little nastiness is killing entire cultures.
• The infuriating Pope Francis style of leadership: he actually does things. What’s wrong with this guy?
• How we cope with new environments. The ‘old’ and the ‘young’ extremes of our humanity
• Behaviours are always competing for airtime. What wins may not be what you expect.
• In empowerment terms, be careful what you are asking for, you might get it.
• The problem with too many decisions pushed up to the top of the organization, usually lies with those at the top who complain most
• We are all traders of comfort, no matter the degree of uncertainty in our worlds
• 8 ways to sabotage the organization.
• Looking for ‘Statesmanship’, in the State and in the Organization
• Oh, mental frames! How easy to create misery!
• Certainty is addictive. Leaders, handle with care.
• Customer centric? How about starting with manners. Revolution, really.
• This blog is not interesting. It’s about language.
• Bye-bye, annual Performace Management.
• Protest platforms are hardly learning ones. Engagement surveys and events feed back are often anything but learning tools.
• Exotics in the payroll. Anthropology excursions into corporate life.
• Why and how some initiatives scale and others get lost in oblivion
• Leadership is still number one, no matter what thousand rankings say.