Organization change is the key to innovation. So, no change, no innovation. Or is it no innovation, no change? Well, change …
4 performance myths dispelled and no more performance reviews
September’s Talent Management magazine writer Mr.Harold D. Stolovitch provides a reality check within his Human Performance column titled Dispelling Performance Myths …
The key to innovation may be better employee hygiene
Today’s drive for continual innovation, as taught or written or sought or crowd sourced, has a lot to do with early …
Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 2
Models attempt to identify the assets that have value. How to manage those assets. And how to strategically turn these assets …
Hiring the right person is more emotional than rational
You have to assume every person you interview has the technical skill to do the job. Once past the traditional human …
When a small business should fear growth
Your small business does not have the culture to succeed as a big business.
Initial ad hoc procedures may prove to drive those early revenues and perhaps the same procedures can manage a firm’s expansion to 30 employees, 75 employees, or 100 employees.
As the growth of a firm increases the amount of interactions and the dynamics of each interaction become more important. Repeatability, scalability, and human capital strategies are vital to have in place before growth.
With a Competing Values Framework your current culture and future culture present present your roadmap for intentional growth.
The bureaucrat and bureaucracy revisited
Bureaucracy is important to manage risk. Max Weber (1864 – 1920) German sociologist, political scientist, and economist was an admirer of …
Golden parachutes reward risk or moral hazard?
The July 31st Economist wrote an article called The wages of failure and brought an interesting perspective to those CEOs dismissed …
9 views into your organization with a project management lens
Project management offers a way to breathe new life into your organization’s competitive and operational advantage, but why is project management seemingly …
2 priorities for competitive advantage
In addition to sales and finance, there are two complimentary organization priorities that leaders should focus on to achieve and sustain …
Create firm value, build talent during a downturn
Where many leaders chose to cut staff, cut talent management programs, or cut both to reduce costs. A Deloitte Consulting, year-long …
Discounted risk is human capital risk
Many private equity and venture capital firms claim to rely on the quality of a team to determine funding. But rarely …
The intervention as organizational rehab
Until knowledge, skills, and abilities are both individual and team success, the organization intervention seems less an option than a core competence.
We need to intervene before we lose even more of your organization’s ability and desire to achieve both individual, team, and organization goals.
We should revisit what has become the noise surrounding essential knowledge, ability, skills, and competencies organizations need from people ready to lead.
Evaluating risk: financial models versus competency models, part 1
We make models to get an idea, on a small-scale, of what might happen on a large-scale. Models help identify risk and …
Business as a foreign language for HR professionals
Today in Human Resource Executive Online I eagerly read a post titled Is Business a Foreign Language for HR? (sadly, no …
Organizations don’t change, people change
Whether strategic or tactical, mandated or self-initiated, change happens in organizations with or without warning.
Organizations are, quite simply, made up of social interactions: groups of people.
People are the heart of organization change.
Can you engineer regional innovation clusters?
Pronouncements of local, state, or federal tax incentives to draw investors and to build innovation clusters. The key is to see a difference between cluster and clutter.
The key for clusters to succeed is for clusters to cultivate of high, value-add industries and supply chains as well as a sustainable competitive AND comparative advantage to other regions.
Boston may not rate as a successful cluster.
Organization development is business growth
Organization development has yet to earn a role in all organizations. Only the most progressive companies have organization development roles, staffs, departments, …