If ‘Be More Pirate’ and ‘Reinventing Organizations’ had idea sex, what would their offspring look like? Haven’t you always wondered that? Oh. So just me then. Well, it’s not the first time I’ve been called weird. Seriously, though, these two books are two sides of the same coin to me. ‘Be More Pirate’ explained to […] Read More…
You know what’s not on an org chart? People. Odd that, isn’t it? I mean, isn’t that the point of an org chart, to show where people fit in the organisation? Actually, no. What is on the org chart is the boxes that the people fit into. The roles, the positions, the grades and the […] Read More…
It’s not surprising that in this in this age of technological revolution, many people reach for metaphors based on the invention of the age, the computer. They talk about ‘rebooting the system’, ‘installing new software’ and ‘re-programming’ things (sometimes, rather chillingly, they mean the people). They are trying to get across complex ideas in a […] Read More…
This is not going to be one of those empty exhortations to grasp control of your destiny by getting off your arse and taking massive action. Nor is it going to imply that the you are to blame for the unsatisfactory job in an unsatisfactory organisation that you find yourself in. But if you are […] Read More…