I challenge myself to write blogs that might start a conversation either leading to change or to sustain what is working. …
Diversity façade, part 2: diversity hijacked
On earlier posts I wrote: 1) diversity is about opportunity and 2) that motivation is the bottom-line success. In this blog I …
Competing values drive organization resistance
Organizations, like people, develop. A start-up has different organization qualities than a 25-year-old, Fortune 500 company. As operational needs increase to …
George Washington slept here
Statues are built for leaders, or leaders are built for statues. One way or the other statues are built for pioneers, …
The most difficult industry to work in
One industry is not more complex than another. It is not the industry that demands an organization norm. Organizations are made and conceived as products of human interaction and social construction rather than an expression of an underlying industry, natural order.
People form the organization, the accumulation of organizations make up an industry segment.
People drive an organization’s effectiveness, mood, and culture. Not process, not technology, but people.
The bottom line: motivation
Motivation to work is less about money and compensation than you might believe. The bottom line on motivation may come from 1959.
Diversity façade, part 1
Intelligence does not guarantee insight. However, diversity does. The very leverage of knowledge is dialogue. And dialogue, a true exchange of …
Emotion versus intelligence — the tortoise and the hare
In my Culture war post, I advocate Emotional Intelligence as a more important quality job interview criteria than a corporate or …
Buy-in is broke
In organization change I always avoid any effort that includes the term: buy-in. You may hear the term in some variation …
Leading and managing
Managers manage. Leaders lead. Are these roles so different? Managers are charged with a budget to manage resources against. Time needs …
Culture war
Looks to me culture fit has turned into force fit. Company culture is realized in the way things get done at …
Leaders and fishing
I focus a lot of ink and irony on root-cause analysis around how a leader affects their organization. Though it may seem …
What can a 5-year-old teach you about leadership?
When an organization’s words do not match action, who is to blame? How many companies have you seen or worked with …