Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on …
8 steps to better decision-making
We now have access to more information than we can possibly process. All that information does not always mean better decision-making. …
Competing values drive your organization out of business
Change very often comes in multitudes and magnitudes, rarely in order and procedure, but change resistance seems to come in constant waves.
A Competing Values Framework will identify your current state organization strength and desired state.
Organizations that understand competing values and the impact of culture can train and manage and cultivate people who can grow with the organization. The Competing Values Framework identifies the culture people are working in, any disconnect, by team or business unit, to then create strategies that align to the culture needs to challenge the culture.
What to keep and what focus to adjustment needed to survive or to excel.
12 tips to bridge the generation gap
This is the first time in American history that four generations are working together.
Baby Boomers actually have quite a bit in common with Gen X’ers or Echo Boomers, particularly because they gave birth to them and Gen Y probably knew them as siblings.
Guest blogger Michele Simos offers a simple solution to getting all of the generations on the same page.
Change: this time let’s try something new
In today’s Boston Sunday Globe, Ideas Section, under the Uncommon Knowledge, Surprising insights from the Social Sciences, by Kevin Lewis, 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, …
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 …
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 …
Culture by design
Strategy meets people where they are. People connect in communities of interest more than ever, but the connected world demands the …