I have seen many businesses where competent people work with dedication and conviction, but where no one seems to have any idea what they are doing. They have lost sight of both the reason why they are doing things and how they contribute to a larger collective ambition. As transformation programs follow one after another, systems pile up, and initiatives multiply in all directions, organizations end up becoming illegible and incomprehensible. Unable to find a shared collective meaning, each person translates what they understand at their own level, in their...
In companies, internal slogans are rarely meaningless and often mean much more than words. They are displayed on walls, repeated in seminars, and included...
Last week, I wrote a long post on corporate social networks, discussing nostalgia for a promising technology that unfortunately preceded the culture necessary for...
AI is like many technologies that once had the potential to radically transform the way businesses operate: too much emphasis on technology can lead to...
Today I've decided to tackle a subject that's obviously proving divisive, given the discussions I've had recently on the subject: that of socialization at work.
Sociability:...