Teams that face stalemates in their innovation, problem solving and improvement efforts may suffer from Text Myopia. A solution may be to adopt new ways of thinking.

A while ago I consulted to an organization as part of a team that saw itself challenged by a number of seemingly irresolvable issues. The client's revenues and profits dwindled rapidly and drastic intervention was needed to change the trajectory bottom lines had taken. We devised a plan that could ...

WHAT IS IT WITH DATA ANALYSIS? – Or, more specifically, why does it nearby always seem to trigger the same response from clients: ‘The data you’ve used is unreliable.’

On the one hand you could easily argue that if this is a stock-standard response you shouldn’t be surprised by it. When it comes to crunching numbers, Pavlov seems to marry Newton: Actions seem to cause (same) reactions. And for me, yesterday was déjà vu all over again.

Five weeks ago I started yet another ...

Just to share with you a few things that resulted from an online teleconference with some of my ex-colleagues – a conversation that erupted spontaneously on what distinguishes better from not-so-good management consultants. The following summary is a bit rough around the edges but it conveys our thinking adequately.

Management consultants, we think, are called upon to play many roles in the management of an organization or team. One of the most important roles every consultant must ...

Each time I watch this clip I think of the impossibility of possibility. Or the other way around. If I were a betting man and had to predict the outcome of this experiment I would have gone for failure.

Alas, these guys pulled it off – excuse the pun. See the clip here:

Where did this clip start? In the minds of a couple of petrol heads who had a few bucks to spare on damaging a few plates ...