Forced Collaboration
Larry Bossidy has the cover story in HBR this month about what leaders expect of you and what you should expect of leaders. Bossidy wrote the book, Execution, with Ram Charan. He is a former exec, and his style is very s ...
Category: Change
The (Negative) Power of Context
Thanks to Signal v Noise for pointing me to an amazing story in the Washington Post. It seems that in January of this year, the Post arranged to have Joshua Bell, a world famous violinist, to play his $3.5 million Stradi ...
Mindset
Guy Kawasaki points to an article by Stanford psychology professor, Carol Dweck about the role of “mindset” in success (in both business and family). Dweck seems to have a lot about raising children, but Kawasaki applied ...
The Power of Language
I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of language lately. There was an interesting discussion on ASAE & The Center’s Executive Management listserve not too long ago about changing the name of a Board of Directors ...
Rare Leadership Competencies
I posted on the Association Renewal blog about an HBR article about “Act II Leadership” because it’s about making change BEFORE things have gone completely downhill, a critical capacity in strategy making that too many o ...
Change Leadership
As a follow up to last week’s post about leadership and culture, I’ll point to yet another article in this month’s HBR (this month’s issue is certainly a keeper!). It’s actually a “best of” article that was originally pu ...
What is Participation?
I just used a quote in response to David Gammel’s comment to my last post, but as I look at it, I think it is good enough to get its own post. It is from Ed Schein, who is a great scholar and practitioner in the organiza ...
Applying "Always Done It That Way"
Many thanks to Sue Pelletier for talking about our We Have Always Done It That Way book on her blog. She is specifically asking for people who have read the book and are applying the lessons to contact her. Let me second ...
Applying “Always Done It That Way”
Many thanks to Sue Pelletier for talking about our We Have Always Done It That Way book on her blog. She is specifically asking for people who have read the book and are applying the lessons to contact her. Let me second ...
Action Learning
The FCNow blog pointed me to a resource on the Fast Company site that is about action learning. According to a survey of Chief Learning Officers in corporations, the three learning methods they are stressing right now (i ...