Did I wake you up, especially if you run R&D in your organization? Do not take this provocation too personally. In the 80’s, at the highlight of the TQM (Total Quality Management) wave, the qualiticians themselves used that joke: “If you wish to kill...
It was almost a year ago (late December) when I wished us all a Happy New Year 2014 and expected to see you again by early January. And… my blog remained silent for ten months, until now. What happened? No terrible drama, no emotional roller coaster… Simply, as Joseph...
2013 is soon over… Thank God! I am now looking forward to 2014 as a year of reconstruction, in my private and professional lives. Many of you know my attachment to the powerful metaphor of the “Hero’s Journey”, based on Joseph Campbell’s work around the universal...
I was recently invited to help to facilitate a dialog in a team of remarkably intelligent executives. The team wasn’t dysfunctional per se, but difficult discussions needed to be made. The leader expected those to be intellectually challenging and emotionally tensed....
Those of you who sit in our transformational seminars, know the story. A long time ago, at the beginning of my career, I was sitting in a plane, next to a Citibank senior banker. I was a young consultant in strategy during the fashion wave of Business Process...
As my colleague Nick McRoberts noted last week, errors are common, both in science and in business, and having to admit that we were wrong is one of the most difficult things to do. In this article I will look at the size of the problem and the underlying causes...
