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Turning Square Wheels into Serendipity: How Organizations Can Unlock Smart Luck and Innovation
Turning Square Wheels into Serendipity: How Organizations Can Unlock Smart Luck and Innovation...
Square Wheels as an Egregore of Organizational Change
Square Wheels: a belief system as an Egregore of Organizational Change you can change to create a...
Performance Feedback Checklist – SIMPLE
THIS post offers a short-form overview of the much more detailed "Performance Feedback Standards...
Dis-Un-Empowered Government Employee – Scott to the rescue of the citizens!
Not much feels better than dis-un-empowering a government employee when it makes a service quality...
The Supervisor Hellscape and Strategy
Supervisor Hellscape and Strategy, an image evolving from Square Wheels® Images to spark thinking...
Meet Glenda, Dani Watkins Leadership Bot
The topic of this is, "Meet Glenda, Dani Watkins Leadership Bot" where I share an interesting tool...
Analysis of Performance Feedback – 2025
Analysis of Feedback: A 2025 Framework for Continuous Continuous Performance Improvement for...
Square Wheels and Anti-FLOW: Getting Teams Unstuck
Square Wheels and Anti-FLOW. Here are some pragmatic ideas for getting teams unstuck and rolling...
Scott Simmerman on “Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly”
Some funny thoughts and one-liners from Scott Simmerman on "Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly," and...
Spectator Sheep – Ideas for dealing with the non-engaged
Here are some ideas for dealing with the non-engaged, on impacting the uninvolved / unengaged, the...
Employee Engagement is OVER? Maybe that is a good thing!
An email from Mercer/Sirota today was headlined, "Employee Engagement is so over! Ok, maybe not...
Dr. Seuss on Disruptive Engagement
Even Dr. Seuss would understand the issues and opportunities around disruptive engagement and the...
Managers – How Square Wheels can impact their workplaces
I got three fast notes from an HR director from an Indian company this morning. He and I had...
Disruptive Engagement, Supervisors, Empowerment and Performance Improvement
I listened to a great presentation yesterday by Mercer on managing engagement, the need to focus...