Why is it Comforting to Listen to Problem-focused Media
The job of the journalist is to create transparency. So, why do we pay so much attention to the media’s incessant drumbeat about the world, our country and our city falling… Read more »
Adding lightness in order to get your team to take flight
In the world of aviation design, there’s a practice of removing weight so an aircraft requires less energy to fly higher, faster and further. It seems simple, but it takes… Read more »
To Improve Engagement, Eliminate Your Problem Analysis Virus.
Much good work is being done to create organizations that have engaged leadership, employees, and customers through non-hierarchical (even holacratic*) approaches. Increasingly driven by creativity and self-governing processes, these businesses… Read more »
Just do it: Making Risk Easier
Risk avoidance is easy. Risk assessment and action is harder. The CMO had stuck his head in the marketing team’s door. They were anxiously discussing the merits of the organization’s… Read more »
When I Insist, You Resist. How Not To Create Engagement
On the one hand, the old line, ‘organizations are full of people anxious to be told what to do’ may still be true. Organizations are also full of people resenting hierarchy,… Read more »
How to bring transparency to, ‘That’s Not What We Wanted!’
We’ve all been there. You’ve worked hard to develop the presentation or proposal. During the meeting there’s shuffling of feet. Suddenly, a member of the team says, ‘This is interesting,… Read more »
To Tell, To Mentor, To Coach? That is the question!
‘Why is it that when I ask people to do something they don’t follow up?‘ This came from an exasperated leader of a volunteer group. The organizational setting was more… Read more »
Use Transparency to Clarify Problems, Build Solutions
Much has been said about the chronic need for transparency in government, on Wall Street, etc. The advocates of transparency like WikiLeaks see themselves as champions of the truth. Transparency… Read more »
How to get understanding if not agreement
Matt Ridley, the rational optimist, has a wish about, ‘economists versus ecologists and the limits to growth’: ‘If I could have one wish for the Earth’s environment, it would be… Read more »
7 Steps to Build Your Personal Brand Story…Now!
If you don’t think you need to pay attention to building your personal brand, just Google your name several different ways. Chances are, you’ll be surprised by what you find…. Read more »