I was asked for a 500-word "wish" to be published by another organization and I thought to repost...
Change
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny: Thoughts on Successful Implementation
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny" is a famous (although somewhat flawed) framework from...
Dis-Un-Engagement and The Lesson of The Monkeys
Ah, the Internet. And StumbleUpon. And Research on behavior. And Creative Genius. I love it when...
Performance Management – what it is (and isn’t)
WAY back in 1978, I started consulting after a short career as a psychology professor. It just...
Ideas and Images – The Brain Sees New Possibilities
I've been interested in illusions and creativity and brain functioning since the 1970s and have...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
Teaching The Caterpillar to fly is a flexible and impactful framework for discussing change and...
Stress as a Motivator? Cognitive Dissonance and Square Wheels!
In the LinkedIn discussion mentioned in a previous post, the question arose as to whether stress...
You set YOUR price for our Facilitation Toolkit – Square Wheels Roll!
Square Wheels illustrations have been used worldwide for almost 20 years as tools for...
Your Brain – Use It! And some thoughts on how it works
It has been an interesting week and a couple of things prompt me to write a little bit about...
Interdepartmental Collaboration’s Vital Link to Organizational Profitability
HR Management Magazine asked me for an article a while back and I thought to make a copy of it...
Catch 22 — So True!
Joseph Heller's book, "Catch 22," is an absolute classic. But it is my guess that not a lot of...
Workers and Managers, Jobs and Pressures
A 2012 survey by the Leadership Management Australasia of organizations in Australia and New...
Superstitions, Behavior, and Friday the 13th
In the email this morning was a short article on “Workplace Superstitions” sent to me in the...
Engage-Ability: Some thoughts on people and performance
There has been a lot of things being asked about engagement and involvement as well as issues...
Big Leaps and Little Steps – Thoughts on Innovation and Creativity
For dozens of years, I have worked on the edges of how organizations work, being The Man in two...