September 18, 2024
The number one rule of leadership development is that there’s no growth without reflection. So come sit a spell and let’s reflect. How’s that two-shapes-of-humans theory actually playing out?
June 14, 2023
Culture handbooks don’t produce culture, people do.
May 3, 2023
Efficiency doesn’t come from cutting people, it comes from cutting waste.
January 11, 2023
While collaboration, alignment, decision making, and unit cohesion can all happen outside of meetings, well-run meetings are a very useful and effective place to accomplish those things.
June 15, 2022
If you start from the assumption that you need to make your team happy – that happiness is an input to work that you need to maximize – you reach for one set of tools. Tools that reduce stress, remove discomfort, avoid conflict. And maybe at a birthday party, or a summer camp, those would be appropriate.
March 23, 2022
The massive competition for talent has every HR and Talent leader running after the same ball. And the visual effect, from up here on the hill, looks a lot like Bunch Ball.
January 30, 2019
Managing in slippery conditions
October 10, 2018
We never like it when we disagree with Peter Drucker (modulo the rampant unexamined sexism)
July 5, 2017
A boring talk about a boring topic that will save your company’s life.
October 21, 2016
If it’s not at your company or it’s not in that role, the kindest thing you can do is give someone a firm nudge toward finding a role where they can do amazing things.
September 20, 2016
It’s hard to generalize on the subject of performance issues and firing.
September 7, 2016
No one who takes management seriously, and does it well, finds this stuff easy. No one who’s been at it for very long imagines that there are shortcuts.
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