Conflicts at work: using dialogue and empowerment
In the post "Office Drama? Understand what's behind it" we wrote about how conflicts at work can intensify when assuming the roles Karpman's drama triangle: victim, [...]
Nassim Taleb and 4 ideas for an Antifragile Organization
I believe it is possible to create an organization based on the concepts presented by Nassim Taleb in his book Antifragile - Things that gain [...]
Office drama? Understand what’s behind it
Have you ever come across situations at work that look like soap opera? It may sound like office drama, but you may be experiencing the [...]
Strategy in a VUCA world – the end of an era
I apologize to the consulting friends who work with strategic planning, but we are nearing the end of an era. Each day that passes, the [...]
Organizational Inertia – How Kodak and Blockbuster Innovated and Failed
It is not enough to develop new products and invest in innovation, it is necessary to overcome organizational inertia. Everyone knows Netflix well. Everyone over [...]
What is Organizational Design?
Organizational Design is the process of designing, defining or adapting the organizational structure. It usually tries to answer: Who is responsible for each activity Who [...]
Be careful about group decisions
Everyone has heard this phrase: many heads think better than one. A pity that few have heard about the phenomena that promote group decisions of [...]
How to kill your boss
I believe most people have a boss inside them. I am not excluding myself from this group. This is explained by the way we are [...]
Do like Waze, don’t work with deadlines
Everyone knows Waze, and the vast majority have become accustomed to how it works. Once you determine a destination, it calculates the ETA (estimated time [...]
How to set goals and kill your business
You probably know the standard recipe for performance management in teams and organizations: Define mechanisms to measure performance in various dimensions; Calculate current levels of performance [...]