August 2010 in review. A roundup of blogs from the previous month: A key to why so many companies blow it in …
2 priorities for competitive advantage
In addition to sales and finance, there are two complimentary organization priorities that leaders should focus on to achieve and sustain …
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 …
Marketing interruption still trumps engagement, really?
Great post on Advertising Age website titled: Why Interruption Still Trumps Engagement. The key to the blog is the closing and …
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.
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 …
Googled: the cost of culture
What does culture really costs a company? Is it worth investing in culture or passively letting culture form, also known as …
High 5, the wisdom of Twitter crowds
Who you associate with in your social media circle may be why you feel Twitter is a waste of time. The wisdom of Twitter is in diversity.
All projects are human capital projects
All the projects underway across your company share one, elemental risk: all projects across your company are human capital projects. The valuation …
Organization strategy and development – party like it’s 1969
Organizations are made up of people, more specifically teams of people who interact through multiple relationships and networks.
Just as people learn and change, organizations can cultivate people and team development to align and support an organization’s growth.
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. …
Diversity façade, part 2: diversity hijacked
On earlier posts I wrote: 1) diversity is about opportunity and 2) that motivation is the bottom-line success. In this blog I …
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.
Diversity façade, part 1
Intelligence does not guarantee insight. However, diversity does. The very leverage of knowledge is dialogue. And dialogue, a true exchange of …
Communication in the age of saturation, part 1
The goal of communication is to be understood. In the age of communication saturation action is the objective. Typically, the first …
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 …