Vote for your Favourite Daily Thought of 2016

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For the first time we are collating an end-of year round-up of the very best of 2016's Daily Thoughts, and want to get your opinion. Which post most engaged, entertained, amused, shocked or challenged you? View our long-list below and select your favourite (you can pick one post per category). Alternatively, if your favourite isn't listed please use the free-text box at the bottom to tell us more!

To make it easier we have linked each headline back to the original post, so you can get a quick recap if needed!

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* 1. Daily Thoughts on: Strategy

‘Customer Obsession Disorder’ is gaining ground. Bad idea.

The Zeus strategy: de-aggregating the problem

The secret weapon of digital transformation revealed: human judgement. In doubt, ask Facebook

There are always trade offs. If you or your people have a plan, a great plan, without trade off in it, it’s not a good plan.

Thanks for your email. A proper robot would have done better.

Reacting on the spot, and responding in agility mode can be engineered and role-modelled.

I wouldn’t hire anybody who is likely to follow the job description.

What they don’t teach you in Business Schools about financial management: managing resources you don’t own or control.

Recruited by an algorithm, unheard in a crowed market, competing for attention: know the rules and your stats.

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* 2. Daily Thoughts on: Culture

The fastest and best way to build a creative culture: all revealed now

I want builders, not problem solvers, not flow-chart artists.

What do you do with that guy who does not want change and/or is very negative?

Why getting rid of inefficient processes in the organization is so hard. Anthropology explains it.

People who perform and live in Formal Org Land, and people who have make/break power: two different lists

To decrease uncertainty is not always difficult. These examples show the big difference.

Most good clues about the culture of the organization can be found in the invisible, the unsaid. This is where serious culture work needs to start.

Culture is in the A list, the one where ‘work’ sits. Not in the B list (‘when I have time, after A’)

Innovation: still the Holy Grail of management.

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* 3. Daily Thoughts on: Leadership

The infuriating Pope Francis style of leadership: he actually does things. What’s wrong with this guy?

Leadership is an amoral praxis. How about this to start a conversation?

Why people ‘with leadership traits’ don’t become leaders. Waiting for the other half of the article.

The pilgrimage to the top of the Leadership Mountain to ask for permission, blessings and a bit of gratification.

The most powerful leadership instructions are the ones that are unsaid

Leadership and the art of managing disappointments

There are good leaders, excellent leaders, and Gold leaders.This is what Gold looks like

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

The formula about what to do when ‘leadership does not get it’, finally revealed.

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* 4. Daily Thoughts on: Critical Thinking & Motivation

Most ‘I’m just doing my job’ people, are not doing their jobs

Have your Big White Board of Distractions in front. Keep your list very fresh. Then, execute the strategy.

Inefficiencies, frustrations and unhappiness? In the right path to growth, congratulations.

‘Every word that she says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’. The Post-Truth Era is upon us.

It’s cool to think. It’s not cool to do crap things.

Invitation: The year of Bullshit Detection

Entrepreneurs, volunteers, and soldiers: about the human fabric of the enterprise 2016

‘Sceptical people and enemies of change need to be sidelined’. Really?

This best kept secret jumpstart will save you months of pain in people and team reorg and alignment.

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* 5. Daily Thoughts on: Engagement and Complexity

‘Joining a cause’, vs. ‘being employed’. Can you articulate the reason for your enterprise?

Mindfulness, the new solution. Oh, sorry, I forgot, what’s the problem?

10 Performance Appraisal questions of yourself with yourself : the examined life of the manager.

Engagement, empowerment and ownership culture meet in one single point. Obvious, simple, and incredibly forgotten.

When the intensity of the discussion is inversely correlated with the importance of the issue, or directly with its triviality.

Efficiency, Efficacy and Effectiveness: the triplets of Management (and the risk of dating the wrong sister)

Corporate Change is Corporate Rafting. And Heraclitus knew a thing or two about rivers (tip: change is not ‘created’)

The new employees who never left their previous one

Vote for your Favourite Daily Thought of 2016

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* 1. Daily Thoughts on: Strategy

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* 2. Daily Thoughts on: Culture

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* 3. Daily Thoughts on: Leadership

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* 4. Daily Thoughts on: Critical Thinking & Motivation

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* 5. Daily Thoughts on: Engagement and Complexity

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* 6. If your favourite Daily Thought(s) is not listed above, please use the comment box below to nominate!

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