Transformation failure is on leadership. Change principles live or die on leadership connecting vision to value. Agile does not scale without …
Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices by the book
A look at what other’s have done to achieve success certainly offers a chance to avoid the aches and scrapes when …
Fast Start — The Importance of Agility
Fast Start conversation: Â People who operate and respond in an ambiguous environment today provide the greatest organization, comparative advantage. The competency …
Fast Start — What, Really, is Change Management?
Fast Start conversation: What, Really, is Change Management? Change swirls around organizations: Â regulation, industry, competition, policy, knowledge, technology ability, and skills. …
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.
1812: The Navy’s War by the book
I love history. Leaders, in trying times and challenges making pivot-point decisions that shape and impact states and people. Games people …
Resonant Leadership by the book
Previously, Boyatzis and McKee collaborated on the book Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence. In Resonant Leadership again team to …
Confidence to learn and competence to contribute
Some people dedicate themselves to life-long learning. Some people revel in positioning themselves as no longer able, willing, or interested to …
Planning the art of possibility
The habit of deficit-based thinking gets us into spiral of what is wrong. When we look, with our hammer, for things to fix then every interaction and process, all those nails, look right for a good hammering.
There is an alternative switch into the art of planning possibility.
Fast Start — Bio as Bible: Managers Imitate Steve Jobs
Fast Start conversation:Â We’ve barely recovered from a decade of Jack Welch, cult of personality, CEO worship. Steve Jobs’ unfortunate death …
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. …
Appreciative Leadership by the book
Appreciative Inquiry is on a short-list of prime influences for my management, relationship, facilitation, change management, and organization behavior work. I …