August 2015

• Management is analogue. Communication is digital. Have two desks.
• ‘The tyranny of the moment’. Liberating Leaders Wanted.
• The Open Plan Office may be a prison with invisible hanging posters: ‘You will collaborate’
• Performance Appraisals: the 5 reasons why it’s so hard to change them or get rid of them
• ‘How to make change sustainable?’ This question needs a warning in the label: ‘but not too much?’
• Decouple discussion and decision-making. Inject a buffer. Relax, it’s not a sin.
• Google’s modern family, ‘alphabet’, is not a company but a platform of incubators (one more incubated than others). Corporate is Mother Host.
• Daily Thoughts is back the 24th of August: just checking in.
• Antifragility: powered by Viral Change TM
• Complexity: another short, summer reading list from Daily Thoughts
• Simplicity: a summer reading list from the Daily Thoughts collection
• Daily Thoughts is on holiday. But we can keep ourselves connected