Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work
"Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work". At first sight this quote from Peter Drucker is self-evident and I could let everyone meditate on it, certain that it generates a high level of consensus.
However, things are never as simple as they...
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years…
Some time ago I pointed out that, paradoxically, the dynamism of the digital world could be a factor of inertia in businesses. This is materialized through different behaviors.
- Since it changes all the time, it doesn't matter if we miss this train, we'll take the next one.
- More "fear...
Computing is not about computers anymore. It’s about living. (Nicholas Negroponte – MIT Media Lab)
This quote from MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte must be one of those I use the most since it perfectly illustrates the paradigm shift we're living. Negroponte said "computing" but today the quote would apply to much more things :
"Internet is not about networks"
"Digital is not about software and...
Learn to look after your employees, the rest will follow (Richard Branson)
A so obvious advice from Richard Branson that I wonder why we still need to explain it and spread the word again and again.
However, it's a good occasion to add a little to it, for businesses claiming they are customer-focused and wondering why they are failing to keep the...
[Quote] Markets are conversations
"Markets are conversations"
That's the first these of the cluetrain manifesto. No matter the documents dates from 1999, it's been used to trigger the earliest phase of the digital transformation. Not at the society level (it was only taking account of the ongoing trends even if it was quite visionary)...
[Quote] In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data (Deming)
That's a quote many people like to mention but that's widely overlooked when it comes to actual work. It says that expect in one famous irrational cased based on personal beliefs, no one should trust anything that's not backed data.
If you were thinking that tools, methodologies, indicators, dashboards and...
[Quote] “Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave”
"Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way... do not complain about illogical behavior..."
Eli Goldratt
That's a quote anyone should have in mind as companies are trying to change the way work is done, to...
[Quote] The Social Network is the new production line. Ginni Rometty (IBM)
The Social Network is the new production line
Ginni Rometty (CEO, IBM)
This sentence from IBM's CEO is in line with many of my thoughts about what was called Entreprise 2.0 in the past, Social Business today and I don't know what tomorrow but is nothing more than the Graal businesses...
[Quote] We should not expect an application to work in environments for which its assumptions are not valid
We should not expect an application to work in environments for which its assumptions are not valid
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
As you may have noticed, that's a quote I often use to talk about change and, in particular, about social technologies in the workspace. But I'm sur anyone could find many...