Driving higher engagement – 6 rules for Smart simplicity
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler”. Albert Einstein Why is productivity in some organizations so disappointing? Despite all the innovations in technology and all the...
View ArticleSimplicity beyond complexity – The Competing Values leadership framework
Organizations today are more and more complex and it is very challenging indeed for managers to understand how to deal with this complexity in an effective way. Quite often, managers are torn between...
View ArticleThe Power of Purpose
Check out this very enjoyable and thought-provoking speech by Robert E. Quinn from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan in which Robert reveals very simply how we can all bring...
View ArticleA Contrarian’s view to start-up success -from Zero to One by Peter Thiel
It could seem quite contrarian indeed to question generally accepted conventional wisdom that competition is synonymous with capitalism. Ever since Adam Smith, we have been educated to believe that...
View ArticleAutonomy, Mastery and Purpose: 3 keys to driving higher performance
Why organizations need to rethink their carrot and stick approach if they want to motivate employees to deliver higher performance. The “carrot and stick” approach is a tried and trusted classical way...
View ArticleUnveiling the Tesla Model 3 – Answering the question Why?
On March 31, 2016 last, Elon Musk unveiled the new Tesla model 3 and from a Leadership point of view, what is really compelling is the way he chose to do it. Rather than trying to sell the Model 3 to...
View ArticleWhat makes a Great Team? 7 “Scrum…tastic” Success factors certainly help!
So Leicester City has won the English Premier League! If you are not an avid soccer or sports fan, this piece of news will probably leave you cold. But for all the crazy sports fanatics around the...
View ArticleWhat’s killing Employee Engagement and how to deal with it?
JFK once said « Things do not happen, they are made to happen » and Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle may have been thinking of JFK when he chose Employee Engagement as the topic for his address at the opening...
View ArticleWhy Change Initiatives fail and what we can do about it.
According to a study back in 2013 by Towers Watson, only 25% of change initiatives are successful in the long term! (See Victor Lipman, Forbes, Why Change Management Fails) Quite dismal results when...
View ArticleBusiness Transformation: Key “hard factors” that influence success!
I wrote in a previous post about why many change management initiative fail and made some suggestions as to what to do to swing the balance in favor of success. If according to research, many...
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