Models attempt to identify the assets that have value. Â How to manage those assets. Â And how to strategically turn these assets …
Golden parachutes reward risk or moral hazard?
The July 31st Economist wrote an article called The wages of failure and brought an interesting perspective to those CEOs dismissed …
Create firm value, build talent during a downturn
Where many leaders chose to cut staff, cut talent management programs, or cut both to reduce costs. A Deloitte Consulting, year-long …
In review: Organization sabotage and the butterfly effect
July 2010 in review. A roundup of blogs from the previous month: Organization sabotage and the butterfly effect — As a …
The Great Spare-Time Revolution
Free time, spare time, where to find time.
For those who feel they have no spare time: Wikipedia articles represent around 100 million hours of human labor.
100 million hours!
Where do people find that time for a thankless, unpaid endeavor? Motivation.
Isn’t it enough that I told them?
Information is a one-way presentation, communication is a two-way dialogue. Communication has to include a feedback loop to be called communication. …
Talent score report brought to you by your credit agency
How’s your credit score? Perhaps I could ask another way, how accurate is your credit score? Perhaps another way, how accurate …
Change management bottom up or top down
Classic change theory: leadership drives change and leadership needs to commit for change to work. Seems to make sense, but in …
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. …