June 2015

• Most likely, the answers are in the room
• The cost of doing something versus the cost of not doing it. The second half is often missing.
• Chose your problems, before they chose you. We never solve problems; it’s a question of working on the best trade off.
• ‘Let’s see what that data says’. The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy lives on.
• Time to retire the ‘HR Business Partner’ concept, if HR wants to ever make it to the high table.
• Darling, what are your expectations today? Or why do we talk Martian in business?
• Games or Rituals? Anthropology inside the company has valuable things to say.
• Manage the inevitable, lead the unpredictable, allow yourself to do both
• William Hague and Angeline Jolie 5 million rape Summit was an expensive flash mob
• I challenge you with this quiz, when applied to your own organization.
• The ‘initiative’ often lets personal commitment off the hook
• I want to import this ‘act of kindness’ into business life
• Blasting middle management is a sign of leadership incompetence
• From ‘us and them’ to ‘us with them’. Don’t kill the ‘us’ on behalf of a fictitious ‘global’.
• Some working places are ‘non-places’, with the inspiration of Isolation Clinical Units
• Leadership is a social concept, not an individual trait. But we are fascinated by the individual stock.
• ‘We have no time’ people and ‘There is plenty of time’ people, share the same sixty minute hour.
• From airplane cabin temperature control: warmer to sleep, colder to awake. A culture thermostat lesson for organizations.
• Consider culture before attending this meeting ( with thanks to ‘Consider the environment before printing’)
• 5 things very successful leaders have in common
• The leader who said ‘make your numbers’ instead of ‘have a good trip back’
• ‘Employee engagement’ is always a line with missing words. Engagement with what? Whom?
• Mondays shape Tuesdays. If you could just fast forward…
• Compatible Dreams + The Non Negotiable = The Journey (AKA the Company)
• Culture = story = business card = halo effect.
• The Process and The Outcome: married, just friends, or it’s complicated?
• The UK Labour Party, Malaysian Airlines and ‘I am Really Stuck Inc’, they all need Reboot! not ‘Navel-Gazing-Improvement’
• The curious case of Castro and the Pope. Or maybe not.
• Magnetic Places are priceless. Run your own ‘People-in-the-queue’ Test.
• Pilot or pastor? From the No-nonsense Francis School of Leadership