When building a team the potential personality clashes and social miscues realize hiring the right person is more cultural over technical.
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 …
What for-profits can learn from non-profits
For-profits commonly look down upon the management and staff of non-profits as woefully inefficient. Non-profits are hounded relentlessly to operate more …
In review: A key to why so many companies blow it in social media?
August 2010 in review. A roundup of blogs from the previous month: A key to why so many companies blow it in …
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 …
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 …
More workers voluntarily quit their jobs
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal presented More Workers Start to Quit. Workers voluntarily quit and reject the feeling that they are lucky to …
Change management bottom up or top down
Classic change theory: leadership drives change and leadership needs to commit for change to work. Change management only happens from the …
Googled again: cost of culture is innovation
What, really, is the cost of culture? Is culture tangible to business bottom line or is culture an intangible behavioral science …
Googled: the cost of culture
What does culture really costs a company? Is it worth investing in culture or passively letting culture form, also known as …
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.
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.
Why Startups Should ALWAYS Compromise When Hiring? — Never!
Reading a blog on the venture capital website Start Up Hire called: Should Startups Compromise When Hiring? I found a reference …
The bully in the corner office
I challenge myself to write blogs that might start a conversation either leading to change or to sustain what is working. …
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.
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 …
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 …