February 2016

• Safe to talk, need to talk, must talk. Team meetings and airtime.
• When everything pushes forward, disruptive innovation may also entail going backwards
• All that must be spontaneous, must be engineered.
• ‘Social Change’ is no longer alien to Executive and Leadership Development. These are social and ‘at scale’ or are not fit for this century.
• An alternative competence system for an alternative HR. Ignore at your peril.
• How can I think out of the box? I can’t find the door
• A culture of X is one where X is part of the normal conversation.
• 3 ways to use ‘Digital’ inside the organization. The trouble with wrong expectations.
• Leaders, Dealers and Dreamers.
• Possibly the most important tribe in the organization is The Brokers.
• The missing word in the famous Margaret Mead quote
• If I were the CEO’s speechwriter for a day, this is the speech I would pass on.
• ‘Joining a cause’, vs. ‘being employed’. Can you articulate the reason for your enterprise?
• Strong thinkers are critical thinkers. Critical thinking can be embedded in the culture.
• Reacting on spot, and responding in agility mode can be engineered and role-modelled.
• I wouldn’t hire anybody who is likely to follow the job description.
• Built to what? Dare to ask your people, and open a little Pandora’s box.
• Reclaiming the human values language for the corporate world
• Leadership dialects: you are supposed to join a party, but don’t get an invitation
• ‘Problem Three’ appears when we treat complexity with more complexity. Many organizations breed it. The UK NHS is caught in it.
• Engagement, empowerment and ownership culture meet in one single point. Obvious, simple, and incredibly forgotten.
• After change you need a period of stability and consolidation’, a last Century employee said.
• Habits have no meaning, they create it. Start with behaviours, get meaning
• ‘Sceptical people and enemies of change need to be sidelined’. Really?
• The soft stuff, and the hard stuff. Convenient split, but unreal. Leadership is neither hard not soft
• ‘Customer Obsession Disorder’ is gaining ground. Bad idea.