How to Increase Business Results Through People
As leaders, we have the power to transform the culture of our organizations. The culture, or the general consensus of “how we do things around here,” affects our business in every sense…
The Role of Love in Leadership and Business Growth
Our world faces today unprecedented changes fueled by the combined forces of new paradigms. As Salim Ismail states in his book “Exponential Organizations,” amazing technology advancements are now…
Moving Through Cross-Functional Mindset Differences on Work Teams—Starting the Conversation.
Most of the important work that is done in organizations these days is done by teams, but how can they develop the same mindset to be more effective?
Inglorious Bystanders
Unconscious bias (UB) is a virus that’s killing your strategy and disadvantaging your best people at the same time. There’re things you can do as a company…
Bias Not Built for the Networked Age is Our 21st Century “Rock in the Road”
If victory today depends on sustained innovation, then our lack of cognitive diversity and our counterproductive biases will continue to be the primary obstacle to designing and implementing a new, winning strategy. Bias is a 21st-century business issue, not a diversity issue.
Change (Innovation) is Hard. Relative to What?
“Change is hard.” Is it?
What if that’s just an opinion disguised as a fact? What if that is just a socialized complaint/expression that we’ve all been brainwashed into believing and repeating?
Empowerment – What are we Afraid of?
Empowerment seems to have become an over-used term, often regarded as too vague or fluffy. So what is the real meaning of empowerment and why do it?
Language and the Pursuit of Happiness
“We only see out there the world that we can speak about.” This article describes with examples, how empowering is to have distinctions and see the world through new lenses.
“Chop Wood & Carry Water” – Because There Are No Transformation Shortcuts
Transformational leaders have chosen to engage in an ongoing mutual process of learning to raise one another up and shifting to a culture (a new system), but there’re no shortcuts. They have simply adopted new lifestyle habits that strengthen their transformation leadership muscles.
Learning in a Sharing Economy: Disrupt or Die
Let’s be real. Our classic learning and development world was designed around the knowledge and expertise “haves and have-nots.” The world has evolved, and it is time that we do as well. We do not need more content and more cognitive knowledge. It is all at our fingertips in this age of the sharing economy. […]