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The Elephant in the Room – Line Managers are the Trainers (All others fail)
More and more, I am convinced that the KEY training people in organizations do not reside in the...
In The Beginning – Thoughts on strategies and motivation
I am just back from a great trip to India, part of which focused on themes of strategy...
Stress as a Motivator?
In the LinkedIn discussion that I mentioned in the previous post, the question arose as to whether...
Innovation, Strategy and Motivation
I am sitting on the bed in Mumbai, looking at emails and thinking about how well the strategy...
Ideas, Innovation and Strategy Implementation – Getting Things Done More Better Faster
I have loved this quote since I first heard it 15 years ago at a conference: If we're not getting...
Motivating People, Motivating Teams
Extrinsic Reward Systems are Perpetuating Workplace Problems There! I said it as clearly as I can....
Simple thoughts on Innovation and Creativity and Change
We can find innovation difficult, especially when we are charged with helping to generate it in...
Motivation, Collaboration, Engagement and Dis-Un-Empowerment*
* Dis-un-empowerment: The removal of those performance-influencing factors (real or believed) that...
Thoughts on Teamwork and Engagement
This is about issues and opportunities around people and performance. Maximum organizational...
Coaching and the Parallels to Running Whitewater Rapids, Part 2
The Whitewater of Coaching Improved Performance (Part Two.) You can find Part One of this article...
Issues of Ownership and Engagement
Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car This is an overview of Square a Wheels Newsletter on Issues of...
“Don’t Just DO Something, Stand There.“
This statement, above, describes the action that we have been teaching as a basic tool of...
Some simple thinking on innovation and involvement
Here is a surprise for you: Big Ideas don’t come from some special place, unless you consider the...
Organizational Communications: The Mission — In The Beginning
I came across this “story” called "In The Beginning" many many years ago and thought it was pretty...