Since I first started consulting on behavior and performance back in the late 1970s, I was struck...
Change Facilitation
Challenging Mediocrity – Continuous Continuous Improvement
Dan Rockwell shared another good post, this one on pursuing excellence and dealing with...
Susan Saves Santa Saving Christmas – a LEGO Square Wheels Story
I just posted up a blog about creativity in my poems blog, illustrated with some random LEGO...
Challengers: People to play Devil's Advocate and Contrarians
Everyday news is awash with examples of bad corporate decisions, the ones that make you wonder,...
Leadership Secrets and Teamwork
Dan Rockwell's blog, Leadership Freak, is excellent. He offers up a very wide variety of...
Good Teambuilding? Bad Teambuilding? Leadership?
We're running with a twitter thread around the link of #baaadteambuilding, with a goal of...
Sweet Feed for Herding the Cows: Ideas for Improved Organizational Results
There is a lot written out there about motivation and all sorts of complicated theories that are...
Purposeful Meeting Openers and Icebreakers: Relevant and Congruent
In my experience, many trainers and consultants focused on involving and engaging participants use...
The Art of Reframing and the Power of Positive Possibilities
This is a blog about the power of possibilities and the art of leadership, anchored to our...
The Future of Work, The Future of The Workplace
It's dangerous for me to sit and read, sometimes, since my mind goes off into different...
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...
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...
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...