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Panelists rated the nominees from to 1 to 5 based on how well they met the following criteria: Sets Direction (25 percent): By building a shared sense of purpose; by setting out to make a positive...
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You may have heard how people are an organization’s most important asset. But really, well-known management consultant Peter Block says that people are often relegated to #7 on a list of most...
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We are entering our next administration in our government. CNN feeds are in the new year are active in offices and in group settings. Yet the challenges ahead in organizations are layers down from...
View Article9 Facts about Baby Boomer Women & Business Leadership
via flickr.com The statistics below about women in leadership were surprising. Women, including many wealthy women who’ve earned their money themselves, are now entering politics, becoming university...
View ArticleThe Pervasive Talent Myths Meet FLOW, Using Your Strengths
I ran across an intriguing title today in my social media and news entitled, How to be Great: Rising Above the Talent Myth. The you-can-be-anything citations are pervasive. They create an economy of...
View ArticleSimplifying Leadership, Releasing Creativity in Communities
A recent experience in an ersatz “leaderless” organization helped bring home the message in this post that true leadership is distributed. Conversations are key to releasing the potential in...
View ArticleCompany Priorities Reveal People Values and Forecast Long Term Profitability
People are usually a lower order value in many organizations, number seven (7) according to consultant Peter Block in his earlier writings. In some rarified companies, the people rank is quite a bit...
View ArticleGender Peer Group Power: The Chicken & Egg in Women Modeling Math & Science...
Slate Magazine has taken on the often quoted gender bias in math and science and has offered more nuanced, evidence based perspective. It is exactly why many programs out there about girls and women...
View ArticleChange, Innovators, Creativity and Community, Will it Blend?
As the technology age moves us along, innovation has been heralded as one of the few growth spaces left, and the power of community, think social media, is the other. Do they blend? Does creativity...
View Article3 Success Factors for High Performance Teams, and What Gets In the Way
Leadership today has evolved greatly and includes high performance within teams. Teamwork can also be the “secret sauce” that defines successful organizations. Our systems for supporting high...
View ArticleChoices for High Performance Teams, Groups and Psuedo-Teams: Achievement Is...
Looking for high performance in your organization? Then take a good look at teams vs. groups. Kenneth P. De Meuse, of the Korn/Ferry Institute cites how work teams appear to be gaining in strength as...
View ArticleCuring ONE of the Seven Deadly Diseases of Management, Performance Appraisals
Entrenched habits tend to persist, mostly invisible, until poets, reformers and provocateurs start writing, talking and asking questions. They challenge us to reexamine long-standing practices that no...
View Article6 Steps Beyond Industrial Age Performance Appraisals
It takes courage, tenacity and teamwork to let go of performance appraisal practices and industrial age thinking. In our post 9-11, post financial meltdown, “New Normal,” business will never be...
View ArticleLeaders Know Talent Wins: 4 Strategies to Ramp Up Retention
Trust: Photo by notsogoodphotography Successful organizations focus on people as well as profits, often built with talented staff that take action as co-owners of the business. Twenty-first century...
View ArticleThe Pervasive Talent Myths Meet FLOW, Using Your Strengths
I ran across an intriguing title today in my social media and news entitled, How to be Great: Rising Above the Talent Myth. The you-can-be-anything citations are pervasive. They create an economy of...
View ArticleSimplifying Leadership, Releasing Creativity in Communities
A recent experience in an ersatz “leaderless” organization helped bring home the message in this post that true leadership is distributed. Conversations are key to releasing the potential in...
View ArticleCompany Priorities Reveal People Values and Forecast Long Term Profitability
People are usually a lower order value in many organizations, number seven (7) according to consultant Peter Block in his earlier writings. In some rarified companies, the people rank is quite a bit...
View ArticleGender Peer Group Power: The Chicken & Egg in Women Modeling Math & Science...
Slate Magazine has taken on the often quoted gender bias in math and science and has offered more nuanced, evidence based perspective. It is exactly why many programs out there about girls and women...
View ArticleChange, Innovators, Creativity and Community, Will it Blend?
As the technology age moves us along, innovation has been heralded as one of the few growth spaces left, and the power of community, think social media, is the other. Do they blend? Does creativity...
View Article3 Success Factors for High Performance Teams, and What Gets In the Way:...
Leadership today has evolved greatly and includes high performance within teams. Teamwork can also be the “secret sauce” that defines successful organizations. Our systems for supporting high...
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