Is the Gender Pay Gap fake news?
The whole world of business talks about Gender Pay Gap as if it is a universal truth. A whole industry along with academic research sprung up over the last decades […]
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The case for a new organizational design
Organizational design has made mammoth steps of innovation and improvement towards sustainable high performance over the last decades – Right? Well, here is Dilbert from 1996 Looking through corporate announcements […]
Sustainable High Performance, a corporate perspective
That performance is identified with achieving targets is an old hat, the ‘Key Performance Indicator’ or ‘KPI’ for short is generally a fancy name for targets. Every organization talks about […]
Debunking urban myths in management wisdom III
Management has had its day. Organizations now need CEOs and Leaders. Nobody has a kind word to spare for middle managers in organizations; eyes of the world are on C-level […]
Debunking urban myths in management wisdom II
Myth 2: Traditional strategic planning and copying currently most admired or successful organizations is a useful and beneficial way of creating a successful strategy. Let us briefly look at what […]
Debunking urban myths in management wisdom I
Myth 1: People Performance Assessments by superiors are necessary, motivating and a good way for providing a base for variable pay incl. bonuses ea., promotion, improvement and feedback. It is […]
The problems of treating trust as a (core) value
Nobody trusts anybody anymore. Sounds familiar? Trust is of utmost importance – you will get the same answer, no matter who you ask in any organization. Taking into account the […]
What’s wrong with bribery?
Let us throw down the gauntlet: What is wrong with bribery? Okay, let us back up a minute before we receive a great howl of moral indignation. We take as our ethical […]
You want to destroy organizational excellence? Rank your people!
Managers in organizations seem to be preoccupied with ranking people based on performance. It is beautifully displayed in a bell-curve and this bell-curve is then dissected into high – medium […]
A matter of culture – and circumstance
‘But our people do not want to make decisions. Our people do not want to take responsibility’ Recently we heard these statements from a CEO in a round-table discussion, again. […]
