The Truth About Change
My last two posts about truth have generated some of the best comments this blog has ever seen. I quoted Joe Gerstandt's comment in the second post, and that one generated an equally awesome comment from Lindy Dreyer ...
Category: Truth
Paying the Price for Truth
Last week I suggested that if you want a culture of truth in your organization, perhaps that needs to start at the top. Several of the comments chimed in with a "you're darn right it does." The top control ...
A Culture of Truth Starts at the Top (?)
I clearly have some issues with hierarchy, and since I'm all about systems, I often find myself pointing out ways that people who are NOT in official positions of power can work to make things happen, change things, ...
Setting Ourselves Up for Failure
A lot of what we do in the work world (and at home for that matter) is attempt to get people to say "yes" to us. We need agreement or approval from other people before we can do what we want or need to do. That ...
Behavior During Recession Can Bite You in the Boom
I like this blog post on SmartBlog Insights that gives an HR perspective on how to manage things differently during the recession. Sometimes we get so stressed out about declining revenue and shortage of staff, th ...
Transparency, Clarity, and Trust (and Truth)
John Maeda and Becky Bermont (from the Rhode Island School of Design) wrote a nice blog post about transparency and clarity.I've written about transparency before, suggesting, as some others have, that radical transp ...