Jim Collins is probably best known for his Good to Great book, but I remember seeing a video of him speaking years ago talking about career development. He drew a classic three-circle venn diagram. Two of the circles wer ...
When I talk about generational differences, I try to distinguish between the real stuff and the "hype." The hype is always judgmental, typically focuses on the negative, and usually blames a particular generati ...
Ask a random person on the street, and they'll support collaboration. Of course it's a good idea when people get together to work on something, solve a problem, help each other out. I'll go out on a limb and ...
We spend a lot of time wringing our hands over the problems that "others" have in our lives. The Board isn't strategic enough. The boss doesn't understand me. That department over there is not ...
The title of this post, of course, is the reverse of the popular phrase, "I'll believe it when I see it." In other words, until you show me proof, I'm not sure I'm going to believe you. Tha ...
The title of this post, of course, is the reverse of the popular phrase, "I'll believe it when I see it." In other words, until you show me proof, I'm not sure I'm going to believe you. Tha ...
A big part of conflict resolution is problem solving, and one of the biggest parts of problem solving is defining the problem. I was reminded of this when I came across this great comic over on this blog: We throw up ou ...
Dan Pink gave a great closing keynote at the Great Ideas conference earlier this month. The best summary I've found is from Frank Fortin (read the whole thing here). And here's the essential quote from Frank:It’s ...
Dan Pink did the closing keynote at the Great Ideas conference this year, and he was awesome. There are some good posts out there recapping his main messages about autonomy, mastery, and purpose (like Maddie Grant and Fr ...
I was in Florida last week testing out a pilot training program on managing generations and conflict in the workplace. It was the first time I really combined these two topics into a training session. It's a lot of mater ...
