All design, whether PowerPoint deck, website, software, product, operating model, or Thanksgiving dinner, is an effort to deliver experience. Experience can range …
Being Agile by the book
Our digital world demands ‘just in time’ connection, transparency, and community engagement. In an agile environment, classic project mindset and process …
A More Beautiful Question by the book
People are born to inquire and to discover. Between two to five years old a child asks 40,000 questions.
Then we are taught to stop asking, stop seeking, and stop inquiring.
Questions are the fuel of curiosity.
Seems the concern is more about the answer and we have lost the patience for questions. Questions challenge authority. The impact: no questions, no innovation.
From the board room to a bored room, there is much to gain from Warren Berger’s new book, A More Beautiful Question.
The Capable Company by the book
When I hear capability model I think competence, competence naturally leads me to motivation. So, capability model, to me, represents a human capital knowledge, ability, and skills framework.
Enterprise, systems, or business architects, view capability models as what a company needs to do to execute strategy.
Any link is a system link and strategy is only as good as the ability to execute. Within the pages of The Capable Company: Building the capabilities that make strategy work, I intend to find capability model methods that identify business and technical details needed for strategic links to execute those capabilities.
Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices by the book
A look at what other’s have done to achieve success certainly offers a chance to avoid the aches and scrapes when …
Identifying and Managing Project Risk by the book
The ability to scope, manage, and view a project, from concept to delivery, through a risk lens, presents the essence of organization competitive advantage.
The opposite of project effectiveness bogs down organization capital, both human and financial, through a cycle of change requests that drain human and financial resources and staff motivation who now need to focus how to get a wrong project right.
Agile Experience Design by the book
This year I have found software, hardware, and product design fascinating for my Organization Development professional development. Â The reality is we …
Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by the book
Frank Barrett, is an active jazz pianist leading trios and quartets as well as touring the United States, England, and Mexico with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
Frank Barrett, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Naval Post Graduate school. Yes to the Mess is a journey through the power of music and the possibility of messiness. Frank correlates this mess to organization development, design, and possibility of innovation, managing highly-talented individuals, group communication, vision, and team dynamics.
Yes to the Mess is not just a book on jazz, but an organization behavior book, a leadership book, and a team development book.
Trust Agents by the book
In 2008 I was lucky to live in Kenmore Square, Cambridge, MA. Firstly, Cambridge is a great city to live in, …
1812: The Navy’s War by the book
I love history. Leaders, in trying times and challenges making pivot-point decisions that shape and impact states and people. Games people …
Resonant Leadership by the book
Previously, Boyatzis and McKee collaborated on the book Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence. In Resonant Leadership again team to …
Games Primates Play by the book
If the title does not intrigue enough, how about the subtitle: Â Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relations. …
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