Too often there is a chasm between the technology design and the user need. Technology alone is not enough.  Whether a business area …
A More Beautiful Question by the book
People are born to inquire and to discover. Between two to five years old a child asks 40,000 questions.
Then we are taught to stop asking, stop seeking, and stop inquiring.
Questions are the fuel of curiosity.
Seems the concern is more about the answer and we have lost the patience for questions. Questions challenge authority. The impact: no questions, no innovation.
From the board room to a bored room, there is much to gain from Warren Berger’s new book, A More Beautiful Question.
Top 10 blog posts for 2013, 10 to 6
Closing out 2013 I look back at the year’s most viewed posts with a chance to reflect on different blog topics that people most view, to include: change management, culture, project management, and mergers and acquisitions posts.
Did a topic near and dear to you finish in the top 10?
Fast Start — Smart failure for a fast-changing world
Fast Start conversation: The pace of change overtakes the pace of learning. In a short list of continually inspiring sites TED, …
Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by the book
Frank Barrett, is an active jazz pianist leading trios and quartets as well as touring the United States, England, and Mexico with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
Frank Barrett, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Naval Post Graduate school. Yes to the Mess is a journey through the power of music and the possibility of messiness. Frank correlates this mess to organization development, design, and possibility of innovation, managing highly-talented individuals, group communication, vision, and team dynamics.
Yes to the Mess is not just a book on jazz, but an organization behavior book, a leadership book, and a team development book.
Fast Start — Want Innovation? Diversify Thinking
Fast Start conversation: Â Innovation really is more about style than substance. By now, diversity has to be realized as more than …
Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business – St. Louis bound
Next week I will speak at the 2012, STL-ODN Conference. The day’s theme:Â The Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business. …
What’s wrong with employee engagement? Ask Facebook
Praise in public, scold in private. Many are coached on this. But what happens when a single manager’s lack of self-awareness meets the level of the Facebook video a father posted to his daughter? See video below?
What, you ask, can the paternal bond of a father and a daughter offer management? The situation, I witness far too often, is a manager’s tough love, just as a father hides behind, will snap an employee or co-worker back into line. The father in this video uses tough love and tough love seems a viable option in a far too many manager tool kits, as well.
Change agents are your organization’s real leaders
Market change, economy change, technology change, workforce change, communication change, today change riddles stress cracks in organization foundations. Whether 80-year-old companies, Fortune …
Organization innovation dies when industry myopia prevails
Industry myopia culls innovation. People who grow in one industry or cycle, through only one industry may seem safe to hire. …
Fistful of beans 09/21/2011
Four of things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1.  Why being wrong is good for you — CNN.com Most …
Influence of The Modern Firm
Organizations design success promotes relations: relations of people within the firm, relations of strategic choices within environmental features. The modern firm serves to coordinate the …