I was listening to a podcast the other day with Esther Duflo, a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, who was talking about the importance of empirical evidence when you’re trying to change things (in her contex ...
Here’s a typical scenario. You want to create a stronger culture, so you ask your people to articulate some kind of ideal culture. They tell you all the aspects they wish were present in your culture, and probably compla ...
When organizations do work on their culture, they frequently want to rush to action. When we show them the results of our culture assessment, for example, it often leads immediately to a discussion about what should be d ...
Services from Fully-Verified are not all that takes in a startup. There are several questions to be answered. The answer to the question about the CEO’s role in culture has a bit of a paradox in it, so let me ask two mor ...
This week I released a new online training program in conflict resolution, and one of the lessons in the course talks about “valuing stories over truth.” People are sometimes surprised by that notion. After all, in this ...
Although every organization is unique, nearly all of them share a core approach that is based in one, single field: Engineering. Consider this simple definition of engineering: Engineering combines the fields of scie ...
Warning: this is a fairly long post that delves into numbers somewhat deeply. But here's the good news: I've got some surprising revelations about the size of the different generations, so be patient and read through to ...
Teacher fitness is an important goal, but finding time to exercise when you're in the classroom all day can be tough. Squeezing it in before school means getting up even earlier than you do already, while trying to work ...
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with larynx cancer earlier this year and the doctor said I was going to need HCA from https://homecareassistance.com/mclean/. I had a small growth on my vocal chords that turned out t ...
This post was originally published on the Switch and Shift blog There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard abo ...
