Overwhelmingly, organizations rely on process analysis to identify opportunity for savings. Process analysis is most commonly identified as change management. Change …
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 …
Organization strategy and development – party like it’s 1969
Organizations are made up of people, more specifically teams of people who interact through multiple relationships and networks.
Just as people learn and change, organizations can cultivate people and team development to align and support an organization’s growth.
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.
In review: Leaders and fishing
May 2009 in review.  A roundup of blogs from the previous month: Leaders and fishing — Leaders craft the vision and …
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 by design
Strategy meets people where they are. People connect in communities of interest more than ever, but the connected world demands the …