March 2015

• Nine basic contradictions in organizational life. Ignore at your peril.
• Science advances by a series of funerals. And some management practices are not feeling very well.
• Benchmarking as a health hazard. Cause of managers severe neck pain confirmed
• I gave money to one of two equally noble fundraising efforts. Why? I don’t’ like robots.
• My 20 Rules of Leadership, ‘following extensive research’ (inside my mind)
• Change management: Harvard, you have a problem
• Ad absurdum, but it may work
• The New York Times announces the new editor of The Guardian: ‘The Guardian Picks a Woman as its editor’
• ‘What if it’s genuine?’ A disruptive question in a paranoid era when the assumption is deception.
• The company as a machine: a 90’s ideology still alive today.
• The Idea-Logic (ideology) of a company. (1) Business as war.
• The slack advantage: ‘The minute the future becomes unpredictable, efficiency can become your enemy’.
• Managing by ‘the short term numbers’: what I learnt many years ago from a screen on the wall
• Lead in Poetry, manage in Prose.
• 20 years of experience, or 1 year of experience repeated 20 times?
• The moral choices of leadership, courtesy of Pedro, my taxi driver in Panama
• Articulating your core belief system, plus finding your ‘Space in the world’. The re-framing of the company steering wheel (4 and 5 of 5)
• Beyond mission and vision …and the rest. Reframing the company steering system in 2015. (1 of 5)
• Since anything can be translated into numbers, the possibilities of being fooled are immense.
• ‘If you have two guys who think the same, fire one of them’
• The ‘Working from home’, distracting discussion.
• The company culture is its operating system. It may need upgrades.
• Strategy: governed by the starting point, not the endpoint. (King’s College War Studies 1, Michael Porter nil)
• I dread ‘robust’ and ‘sustainable’ cultures.
• Two way in vivo fertilization Human Resources – Business. The 2015 Protocol.
• Daily Thoughts is one year old today! Blow the candle with me.
• “If you want to revenge someone, prepare two graves”. On leadership and digging.
• Community Organizing 1, Harvard MBA nil.
• ‘A man can put up with almost any how if he has a why’