Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …
Agile icebreaker
This Agile icebreaker uncovers work environment change. This exercise for training and workshops takes focus away from templates and certifications, that rarely matter, and shines a light onto actual adoption.
Fast Start — More Toxic Workplace
Fast start conversation: Open-plan office space. All the rage. Well, this office space plan may cause a genuine type rage far …
Top 10 blog posts for 2015, 5 to 1
Top blog posts from 2013, from number 5 to number 1, a follow-up from Top 10 blog posts for 2015, 10 to 6 …
Top 10 blog posts for 2015, 10 to 6
Closing out 2015, I look back at the year’s most viewed posts as a chance to reflect on blog topics, from …
Top 10 blog posts for 2014, 5 to 1
Top blog posts from 2014, from number 5 to number 1, a follow-up from Top 10 blog posts for 2014, 10 to 6 …
Company social media strategy reflects organization culture — engagement
A company that does not engage their market lends little confidence they engage their employees. A persona-driven strategy identifies characteristics through insight, data, and feedback to develop pertinent images of an ideal customer’s goals, needs, and objectives.
Social media reveals organization culture through more transparent ways than any HR engagement program.
What people want, may not be what you want to say. That gap is more realistically a chasm.
Fast Start — Bias Gets a Bad Rap
Fast Start conversation: Bias, an outlook or tendency to prejudge something, is usually attacked in organizations who aim to create an …
Human capital beta is investment risk beta
Human capital management is motivation management. No matter the IQ of an individual or the collected experience of the team without …
Cited and noted: What Does Fortune 500 Turnover Mean?
Since 1955, the Fortune 500Â list represents the 500 largest US corporations by gross revenue. Â Making the Fortune 500 is a mark …
Company social media strategy reflects organization culture — sales
Social media is a wasted investment if the wrong numbers are valued over the right ratios. Social media is not a sales promo blitzkrieg, social media is an engagement strategy.
Culture is the way things are done. Getting something done in a culture is understanding what the culture values and how to navigate.
A relationship built on a transaction is a relationship built on perceived value; sales or otherwise. A relationship built for a sale is a relationship that starts with the end game and that end game is more transparent to the mark than you realize.
Social media strategy provides proof of involvement and the real tolerance an organization has to listen to a diverse community of voices and harness the contrarians.
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. …