Overachievers
Ben Martin at the CAE Blog recently put out an idea and invited those of us writing the "We've Always Done It That Way" blog to expand upon it. I took the challenge and wrote a post about the tendency in associ ...
Category: Managing People
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 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 ...
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 ...
Permission to Speak, Sir
The April Fast Company has a nice short piece that talks about medical teams receiving “crew resource management” training based on safety lesions from the aviation industry. It’s about how to perform under pressure as a ...
It Makes Sense to Them
I've been reminded recently in my work of an important truism that people tend to forget at exactly the wrong time. I'll start with the truism:People engage in behavior that makes sense to them.This may seem obvious, but ...
Silo Busting
There's a nice piece (subscription required) in the "intelligence" section of the March Associations Now by Dale Gaddy of the American Chemical Society about how they avoid "silos" in their organizati ...
Standards
I met with a potential client today whose staff is experiencing frustration that has developed, in part, because of some fairly radical changes they have been going through operationally and culturally over the last year ...
Hiring Process
I was speaking to a CEO last night who was in the midst of hiring several people for his staff (in a hurry). This left me with a couple of things to ponder. First, and this is mostly for anyone out there who might be loo ...