“The people with the Problem are the problem ….and the solution”. In today’s reflection we contemplate the importance of engaging people in the identification of what’s not working as well as what to do about it. In many change efforts, the people in charge select the...
In the UK, responding to the public outrage that no one was individually held accountable for the financial crisis that ruined lives and businesses alike, yesterday marked the beginning of the new “Senior Management Regime” (SMR). Under these provisions senior...
Two stories in the news about developments in the Middle East, one reassuring in a perverse way, the other just flat out alarming. The first is report aggregated from a wide set of analysts indicating that ISIS is suffering from the same problems facing any...
The banks in Europe are back in the news this morning – paying fines (again) this time for misdeeds around “dark pools,” a well-known but mysterious trading practice. The pattern has inured many of us to a “ho-hum bad behavior at the banks” attitude. In fairness to...
If you were in charge at Twitter – what would you do? How could you tell your choice was a good one? Nowhere have there been more examples of the agony and the ecstasy among young organizations than the tech sector. Darlings rise and fall, regroup and rise again. One...
