Discipline

In Belgium a couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out with Olivier Blanchard. He is ridiculously smart, and a fellow Que author–his book is called Social Media ROI. It is actually quite a nice complement to Humanize (I think Maddie describes it as...

A Different Kind of Vision

In an organizational context, the word “vision” will often score you a point in “buzzword bingo.” And that’s too bad, because like a lot of those words, it has some important meaning behind it. On the other hand, I get why it has achieved...

The Future of Leadership

Sorry to break this to you, but the future of leadership is not about you. That’s the title of a guest post I did this week over on the blog of Shawn Murphy and Ted Coine, two outstanding thought leaders in the leadership arena. They did a series on the...

Tell Your People

When I first started in consulting, I was on a big project with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It was an extensive assessment of “organizational issues” broadly speaking. I did a LOT of interviews and focus groups. I remember meeting with one of the...
Jamie Notter