For some reason, the issue of upwards communications of information and filtering keeps coming up...
Facilitation
Thoughts on Organizational Improvement, Teamwork, Collaboration and Decision Making
We often think of disagreement as negative, which it can sometimes be. On the other hand, having...
A poem on Intrinsic Motivation and Continuous Continuous Improvement
I stated playing with some of the Square Wheels cartoons and doing some short poems over the past...
Training and Development cannot fix performance problems – Some Square Wheels
Companies spend money to improve results. They spend BILLIONS on doing surveys on organizational...
A Big Foot Smush – The poetry continues
Joan had some thoughts on my poem in the previous blog, one that was about what management can do...
WHY does Godzilla want to smush Bambi?
My posts are pretty much all about team building and team building games, themes of leadership...
Season’s Greetings
We published this 4 years ago. Check with our blog to see some new ones in a day or two: I...
Engagement and Involvement: What Would Santa Do? Engagimentation!
I thought you might like this little story about Santa and the Elves and his reindeer and how he...
Some Random Thoughts and Quips on Management
Here is one of my new frameworks, something for consideration about how things seem to really work...
Thoughts on Optimal Team Sizes and Intrinsic Motivation for Results
Andrea Goodridge posed the following question in a LinkedIn discussion: "What is the optimal team...
It’s Not My Fault – Why Engagement is Not Working
Some really scary stuff is how much money companies are spending on Engagement Surveys and how...
Engagimentation = Engagement plus Implementation
Continued writing and reading and writing has been pretty interesting as I bounce different ideas...
What I hope for: The Workplace
I was asked for a 500-word "wish" to be published by another organization and I thought to repost...
Motivation, Training and Icebreakers. Keeping It Real!
Opportunities to increase motivation abound in every organization. So many things one can do to...
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny: Thoughts on Successful Implementation
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny" is a famous (although somewhat flawed) framework from...