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Featured articles this week
Is It HR’s Job to Tell People How to Behave?
Personnel Today, 30th April 2026
The biggest mistake organisations make about behaviour is believing it can be managed through instruction. The reality is more social, less controllable – and far more consequential, argues Dr Leandro Herrero
Communication is not the engine of change (and never was)
Strategic Magazine “Contagion” Column, 1st May 2026
Internal communication has mistaken visibility for causality. The result is an industry optimising messages while behaviour remains stubbornly unchanged. If communicators want a future, they must stop managing information and start shaping what actually spreads. “Most internal communication functions are not underperforming; they are perfectly performing a model that no longer explains reality.”
A Bricolage of Ideas
A selection of recent articles on behavioural and cultural change, leadership, organizational networks and the future of work.
links to dr herrero's Previous Articles including his monthly column in "Strategic" magazine
- Why Cutting Blind is so Costly to Organizations
European Financial Review, April 2026 - An Epitaph: He Died Future-Ready
Strategic Magazine Column, March 2026 - Why Management Distrusted the One Force That Actually Changes Culture
Strategic Magazine Column, February 2026 - The Tyranny of Corporate Waffle
Strategic Magazine Column, January 2026 Why Management Distrusted the One Force That Actually Changes Culture
The European Business Review, 11th January 2026- The “Not To Do List”: 25 Things For Leaders Not To Do
Strategic Magazine Column, December 2025 - Designed Informality: Reclaiming the Oxygen of Work
The European Business Review, November 2025 - The 9 Lives of Culture
Strategic Magazine Column, November 2025 - Last Corporate Myth
theHRDIRECTOR, October 2025, Issue 252 - When Cultures Collide
People Management Magazine, October 2025 - Designed unaccountability
Strategic Magazine Column, October 2025 - 25 Years of Cultural Change and Transformation
Engage for Success Radio Podcast, September 2025 - Changeability? It requires purpose and culture to be aligned
Engage For Success Blog, September 2025 - Networkracies – From Hierarchy to Connectivity
The European Business Review, August 2025 - Between “no longer” and “not yet”: organizational transitions
Strategic Magazine Column, July 2025 - Nutella Man – How organizations opt for “smooth sameness” when it comes to employee communication
Strategic Magazine Column, June 2025 - The Children of Managerialism
The European Business Review, June 2025 - Case Studies are for Cowards
Strategic Magazine Column, May 2025 - In Conversation: Dr Leandro Herrero and Mike Klein, Founder of #WeLeadComms & Editor-in-Chief of Strategic Magazine
- In Peer We Trust
The European Business Review, April 2025 - The Yin and Yang of Technology/AI and Culture
theHRDirector, April 2025 - Don’t Agree Too Soon – some thoughts on polarization
Strategic Magazine Column, April 2025 - AI Can Make Us More Human
Global Leaders Today, April 2025 - Behavioural Change is not a by-product of technology, it’s the prerequisite
HR Magazine, March 2025 - The Left Hemisphere on steroids? AI is having a ball.
Strategic Magazine Column, March 2025 - The truth about management of change. The good, the less good and the old assumptions about communications.
Strategic Magazine Column, January 2025 - Why it’s time to stop using “the system” as an excuse for inaction
People Management, January 2025 - Alien Report
First published in theHRDIRECTOR magazine, Issue 243, January 2025. Reproduced with permission. - No, it’s not “the system” – you are the system
Safety & Health Practitioner, December 2024 - Backstage Leadership™ – Is the Ultimate Secret to Organizational Success
Engage for Success Blog, December 2024 - Stop assuming people are resistant to change
Personnel Today, November 2024 - How to create a social movement at work
Personnel Today, October 2024 - The Wrong Question
First published in theHRDIRECTOR magazine, Issue 239, September 2024. Reproduced with permission. - Why businesses need to look beyond “quick wins” for large scale change
People Management, July 2024
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