Last weekend, I spent my Sunday facilitating a fairly large not-for-profit board of a national association. My remit was two-fold; first, to help them develop an action plan for a major internal (mandatory) initiative spanning about 10 months, and ... [Continue Reading]
My dream projects and dream collaborators (#1)
After much internal musing, I have decided that I have a lot to gain from "going public", as it were, and clearly declaring my interests in dream projects I would like to be involved in, and the kinds of people that I think might want to collaborate ... [Continue Reading]
Reprint: “The Source of organizational dysfunction, revealed!”
I came across this article recently in the online version of strategy+business, which is the magazine published by management consulting firm Booz & Company. The article makes the case that the source of much of the dysfunctional behavior our ... [Continue Reading]
Stress, and how you should think about it.
TEDtalk by Kelly McGonigal about the science behind stress. Interesting stuff and well worth watching -- key take-away: "caring creates resilience". Awesome thought for a stressed out society.... ... [Continue Reading]
Want to transform into a high performance business?
I've been thinking about this question a lot lately, as I work to better relate my own "transformation" value proposition into language meaningful and attractive to my clients. I mean, who wouldn't want to own and operate a "high performance ... [Continue Reading]
Change management? Change required = management
Last evening I sat through a very informative presentation given by a colleague of mine; the topic was on why Canadian industry is suffering from an "innovation gap" (comparatively speaking, based on international ranking systems) and what the ... [Continue Reading]
Are you a reluctant change agent?
A few days ago I was in Maryland visiting with some good friends. We had a thoughtful discussion about "change", in which they suggested that most people are forced through circumstances to deal with all kinds of change. Family issues. Career ... [Continue Reading]
What makes an effective change agent?
I've been mulling this question over for some time now, partly as (one of many) ways of continually improving my own articulation of my value proposition and brand as a "change guy". Here's my short list for how one should approach a potential ... [Continue Reading]
The psychology of change
Several months ago I was lucky enough to stumble across a great blog which I started to subscribe to. PSYBLOG (written by researcher Jeremy Dean studying in the UK) is chock full of interesting studies and findings about how we really work. In ... [Continue Reading]
The sorry state of work-place productivity
In my daily trolling through the internet, I came across this interesting infographic examining the reasons contributing to poor workplace productivity. I think you'll find it interesting to scroll through (shown in its entirety below), and it hits ... [Continue Reading]
