The pressure is on -- people want me to bring forth my new game design on strategy implementation,...
Performance Management Blog
Ideas on People and Performance, Team Building, Motivation and Innovation
A Desk is a Dangerous Place – Thoughts on Innovation and Implementation
I responded to a LinkedIn post about the issues of innovation and implementation. It was started...
A Perfect Playing of Teamwork: Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
I first published The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine back in 1992 and we ran a lot of...
Team Building with Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
After 22 years in the global organizational improvement marketplace, The Search for The Lost...
7 Things You Should Do Differently to Build Better Teamwork
This is most assuredly NOT the First Rodeo for the vast majority of my readership. Many of you...
Entrepreneurial Terror – How can anyone else understand?
One of my most favorite articles of all time is one by Wilson Harrell, then an editor of Inc....
Is Work Funny or What? Paradoxes in Perceptions
I am a serious guy when it comes to people and performance, which is why I lean toward using games...
Asking Key Questions to Generate Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement
If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you know that we write extensively on issues of teamwork,...
Trust is Revealed by implementing Round Wheels
Dan Rockwell had a really great blog this morning, one that I wanted to reframe and reanchor and...
Keeping It Stupidly Simple – Thoughts on Teams and Teamwork
In a recent LinkedIn thread on leadership, Bob Whipple posted up a short note on "4 Essential...
Quotes by James Madison about Liberty and Freedom
I sometimes get political because I AM focused on people and performance, goals and expectations,...
Some New Thoughts on Trust and Devils Advocate
A grad-school colleague who was a self-described Devil's Advocate was always challenging...