September 2015

• Company vs. Community. Digging the roots of words for a possible reunion.
• A Gordian Knot Brigade in each organization. All swords on deck.
• Trust is an unfair affair. Don’t apply linear arguments. All trust that is solid can melt in the air.
• The Bad Apples Theory on colossal business fiascos. (It’s the basket, stupid!)
• Shhh! I am playing John Cage’s 4’33 as part of my leadership development.
• The ‘Call me Peter’ School of leadership.
• Disruptive innovation, like charity, starts at home. Your mind and your people, that is. The rest is the easy part.
• Talk the walk (Note from the editor: it actually means in that order)
• I am in favour of consultants entering the temple of the Social Sciences provided they take off their shoes
• Good thinking, same thinking: a case of process reengineering without thinking reengineering.
• ‘Nothing new under the sun’ ? Take off your sun glasses and stop the Valium
• We need the aliens. Everybody needs aliens. Smart aliens who can ask questions and open Pandora boxes for us.
• “There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data sets”
• Being proud of (my company X) can’t be legislated or fabricated. It’s an outcome, a by-product.
• History is constructed. The leader’s legacy is not retrospective. We build it daily, so we’d better test it.
• Management: by invitation. Unbundle reporting lines and management teams
• 7 Ways to get away form the ‘team = meeting’ trap and establish ‘Team365’.
• In the name of names: the cause for renaming in the organization
• Create inflection points when you don’t need one. It’s better than waiting for the inflection points to come to you.
• I want companies with Post Traumatic Strength Disorder. Untreated.
• Scalable or not scalable. That is the question.
• The best organizational model is the one that has more than one under the roof
• ‘The incumbent always loses first’. That may be a winning strategy
• 3 self-sabotage mechanisms in organizations.
• Being compelled to react, does not make you good leader. The clue, and the winning, is in the number of problems that you decide not to address.
• My top 5 Leadership questions at the top of the agenda.
• Organizational Decluttering: A crusade in waiting that may need you as leader
• If you needed to remember only one classification of people: ‘external and internal locus of control’
• ‘Jeff Bezos assures Amazon Employees that HR is working 100 Hours a week to address their complaints’ (that they are working 100 hours a week)