January 2016

• A lot of trumpeted customer-centrism is company-centrism, or us-centrism, disguised as customer and with a customer music in the background
• Critical Thinking is up in the list of skills in the 2020 Davos shopping list. If anything, I have a problem with the date. The skill gap is now, well and alive
• The myth that only change at the top can ensure change within the organization.
• ‘Big changes requires big actions’ is a myth based upon the wrong maths. At the very least, a wrong start.
• ‘There is nothing I can do’ must be fought before it becomes collective belief.
• Employee loyalty is a plural. Leadership is the host of that plurality, always an irrational mix
• 15 things to look for in a corporate culture if you were a corporate anthropologist (or not)
• “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”
• Tell me what you want to prove and I’ll give you the name of a company.
• State of the Enterprise Address Summary: Rethinking in progress.
• The organization is not a Grand Bazaar. A transactional model of the firm is a trap. Leaders should get out of it.
• Have you heard the one about the three envelopes? There is a whole Theory of Management behind.
• Entrepreneurs, volunteers, and soldiers: about the human fabric of the enterprise 2016
• Will disruptive innovation go backwards?
• ‘This follows that; that has caused this’. Of course we don’t think like that! Not your company, anyway
• ‘Forget what they say, observe what they do’. The ‘uniqueness paradox’ revisited. A bit.
• ‘Us and them’, and ‘us with them’. From politics to day to day management, Identity is a hot topic. And I am going to elevate the confusion to a higher level.
• The Einstein Solution: on the curious phenomenon of how the challenges left on the desk before the break have not gone away.
• Invitation: The year of Bullshit Detection
• Efficiency, Efficacy and Effectiveness: the triplets of Management (and the risk of dating the wrong sister)
• When the intensity of the discussion is inversely correlated with the importance of the issue, or directly with its triviality.
• Possibilities! @ 581