Classic change theory: leadership drives change and leadership needs to commit for change to work. Change management only happens from the …
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.
5 tips to manage better meetings
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. We have meetings to clear up confusion, to communicate, to interact, to make decisions, to listen, …
3 reasons for project failure: change, participation, and risk
An organization builds a culture of success when it can take a strategy, identify and prioritize the most important projects within …
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. …
Twitter power — Sarah Palin and the tweet to sue the entire Internet
As a follow-up to my Twitter is a waste of time blog, I provide a 4th example about the application of …
Competing values drive organization resistance
Organizations, like people, develop. A start-up has different organization qualities than a 25-year-old, Fortune 500 company. As operational needs increase to …
George Washington slept here
Statues are built for leaders, or leaders are built for statues. One way or the other statues are built for pioneers, …
The bottom line: motivation
Motivation to work is less about money and compensation than you might believe. The bottom line on motivation may come from 1959.
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 …
How goals help us fail
March 15th I read an article in Boston’s Sunday Globe Ideas section on how goals have a dangerous side. The article …
Buy-in is broke
In organization change I always avoid any effort that includes the term: buy-in. You may hear the term in some variation …
Leading and managing
Managers manage. Leaders lead. Are these roles so different? Managers are charged with a budget to manage resources against. Time needs …
Leaders and fishing
I focus a lot of ink and irony on root-cause analysis around how a leader affects their organization. Though it may seem …
What can a 5-year-old teach you about leadership?
When an organization’s words do not match action, who is to blame? How many companies have you seen or worked with …