Conflict Costs Billions
Thanks to Hallely Azulay of Talentgrow for pointing me to this article about the cost of conflict in organizations. An alternative dispute resolution company in Europe did some research to try to quantify how much confli ...
Starting versus Stopping
Please check out this great post on the Fast Company blog about the power of starting new behavior, rather than trying to stop old behavior. Here's a snippet:One place this idea can be important is in changing one's mana ...
The Only Acceptable Way
There’s another story in Fast Company this month about two leaders who did a massive turnaround at an advertising company. One of the leaders was shocked to find that the rising stars in the organization not only didn’t ...
The New American Workplace
In 1973 the government issued a report on “Work in America,” that was apparently “explosive” in reporting the alienation of blue collar workers and the “search by women for a new identity,” according to an article in Fas ...
Always Done It That Way
I've mentioned this before, but I'm one of five authors of a book we have titled, We've Always Done It That Way: 101 Things We Must Change About Associations. We've been writing the book "publically", by postin ...
Thick Skin Test
Okay, this is a test of my thick skin, but in the last few days I’ve come across two very funny lampoons of consultants. The first is a cute animated short put out by Association Forum, and the second is a hilarious webs ...
Email subscribers
For those of you that subscribe to this blog by email, I've switched from Bloglet over to Feedblitz (as many have, I think). This is supposed to be seamless for you. If it isn't, let me know. ...
Speaking the Truth to Management
Guy Kawasaki pointed to this unbelievably good post from a woman named Pamela Slim who delivers a harsh but important message to senior management in organizations. I love her clarity, her honesty, and the content of the ...
Backlash against Teams?
Two articles does not make a trend, but I can’t help but notice that two of my favorite sources of business literature (ones that tend to be supportive of my approach to the “human side” of organizations) have recently p ...
Experiential Learning at Offsites
Business 2.0 has a short piece on “why we all hate offsites.” I’ll try not to be defensive since I often facilitate retreats that are held out of the office, but in this case, the article is referring to the traditional ...