December 2015

• A very happy Christmas to all subscribers of the Daily Thoughts
• Daily Thoughts goes into pause mode. 580 Daily Thoughts later, we are going for a bit of maintenance. Stay tuned
• (Part 2) Management: The Evolution of the Species. 12 kind of people you need to find, seduce, hire and create a job for. (part 2 of 2)
• Management: The Evolution of the Species. 12 kind of people you need to find, seduce, hire and create a job for. (part 1 of 2)
• 10 reasons why leaders need to focus on the (un-managing of the) informal organization
• Volkswagen (VW) apparently ‘needs to change its mindset’. Has anybody ever seen a mindset?
• Collaborating across borders needs one thing: borders
• ‘You can have any colour of leadership as long as it is white’. This is our “Ford translation’ in organizations.
• The formula about what to do when ‘leadership does not get it’, finally revealed.
• 3 Inconvenient truths about leadership and change
• Empowerment is an output. Only if you can visualize it, you can craft it.
• In praise of tension. Consensus as permanent state in the organization, is collective coma.
• My 10 unreasonable non-negotiable, circa 2016.
• Employee Engagement time out! ‘The survey’ has no clothes. Back to thinking, could you believe it?
• “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”
• Calling the Activists. Calling you.
• ‘We are building’ vs. ‘We are solving’. One shapes your future, the other fixes the past.
• We love organizational diagnosis in Technicolor charts. We love the organizational solutions waiting for them. The bridge, is another matter.
• ‘A problem with decision making’ is almost never a problem with making decisions. Here are 3 scenarios.
• 10 Performance Appraisal questions of yourself with yourself : the examined life of the manager.
• Bring in the Buffers. Noise Amplifier people create loud tsunamis from a drop of questions in the organization