I am increasingly packaging up my research, work projects, and speaking engagements around the framework of "mission effectiveness". I believe this is an incredibly powerful way to look at what outcomes we are working towards whether in our ... [Continue Reading]
The inaugural issue of transform/21 newsletter
I've just published the first issue of my new-look newsletter, labelled transform/21. Future issues of this newsletter will examine the overall theme of 'change', and in particular explore useful tools, insights, and processes for helping people deal ... [Continue Reading]
Building effective work teams
A current focus of mine is exploring tools, processes, and insights into what goes into making high performance teams, and how one can engage an existing team and help them build their overall team effectiveness. In researching this area, what has ... [Continue Reading]
Having better conversations: be prepared to be amazed
Radio talk show host Celeste Headlee thinks that makes her a great conversationalist is that she truly believes everybody has is an expert at something and has the ability to amaze you. And so she tries to shut up and truly listen. Her 11 minute TED ... [Continue Reading]
Our work teams don’t work very well. Why?
I worry that I am a slow learner. After more than 30 years of business experience in the corporate trenches, as an independent consultant, a researcher, a lecturer and a business owner, I have only come to appreciate lately that the performance of ... [Continue Reading]
BS you can use: Change for people that don’t want to…
Just came across this interesting 5:00 minute video from the BS (Behavioral Science) Guys on how to interact with people about "changing" when they are reluctant to change. The key is to recognize it is mostly likely not an "information issue" (we ... [Continue Reading]
Organizational design — the formal and informal…
I just came across this gem of a thinking model for "organizational design" challenges and opportunities; this exhibit is straight out of a recent Strategy+Business article you can find here. I think this is a great way to think through things -- in ... [Continue Reading]
Gary Hamel: “Change itself has changed”
Manage Change in a Hyper-Changing World by Big Think Editors May 1, 2014, 12:00 AM There is so much attention being paid today on how to embrace change. But management expert Gary Hamel, the bestselling author of What Matters Now, says that ... [Continue Reading]
