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 …