The essence of strategic change is not a new direction, but a series of directives. What to start, what to stop, …
Fistful of beans 12/22/2010
5 things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Is the belief that mergers drive revenue growth a delusion? …
4 performance myths dispelled and no more performance reviews
September’s Talent Management magazine writer Mr.Harold D. Stolovitch provides a reality check within his Human Performance column titled Dispelling Performance Myths …
The key to innovation may be better employee hygiene
Today’s drive for continual innovation, as taught or written or sought or crowd sourced, has a lot to do with early …
The bureaucrat and bureaucracy revisited
Bureaucracy is important to manage risk. Max Weber (1864 – 1920) German sociologist, political scientist, and economist was an admirer of …
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 …
It’s true, your boss is a psychopath — UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE?
From the weekly, always insightful, Boston Globe Ideas Section, I give you this week’s UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE [their capitalization, not mine]. This section …
More workers voluntarily quit their jobs
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal presented More Workers Start to Quit. Workers voluntarily quit and reject the feeling that they are lucky to …
All hail the solution to the micromanager
Micromanagers grind work to halt and wastes resources, requisite organization is framework that looks at strategy with time as a critical element for how work is assigned, done, and managed. Requisite organization, or requisite uncertainty, is a great way to empower employees, maximize resources, and modify micromanagers.
The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy
There is little doubt each National Football League (NFL) team spends an extraordinary amount of resources preparing to draft their number …
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 …
Human capital portfolio management and simple math
A venture’s viability really comes down to a bet on a team to deliver. It is the interpersonal process where venture performance …