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KISS – Keeping It Stupidly Simple – A Square Wheels Poster on Team Perspective
Conversations keep reinforcing the idea that everything is getting increasingly complicated these...
A Dance of Change – something new?
It was funny to read a little blurb in the ASTD Training & Development magazine about an...
LEGO, Square Wheels, and Teamwork – Celebrating Success
Let me illustrate my thinking on issues of corporate performance, innovation, teamwork and the...
Brainstorming and Implementation – That DOES work…
In the past year or so, there have been a number of articles and writings on the theme that...
We CANNOT expect involvement and engagement if we play the Blame Frame Game
How can we motivate people when we make them defensive? How can we expect innovation and process...
Getting Things Done – Herding Frogs and Herding Cats
A couple of really good discussions on facilitation and implementation reminded me of The Theme of...
Strategy Implementation and Team Building – Years of Hard Work
My friend and associate, Robin Speculand, has been working with strategy implementation ideas and...
Leading People by Involving and Engaging – some resources
Motivating, aligning and engaging people are critical tasks of managing, but also something that...
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork tends to be a lot of trial and error improvement. The...
Innovation and Fear of Failure – a blog by Russ Linden
Every so often, I get a blog post that merits a re-posting and Russ Linden is often the author. I...
Which is Innovation Reality? You make the choice…
A cartoon of Håkan Forss generated a few reactions about which might better represent...
The Square Wheels, LEGO Controversy: Thoughts on Leadership and Engagement (Part One)
In the blog post of yesterday, I shared the LEGO image that was sent to me with comments that I...
Fear is The Mindkiller – Thoughts on Facilitation and Engagement
In writing about facilitation and how it seems that some people want to make this simple concept...
Decision Making, Creativity, and Implementation
Maybe the title should be, "Engagement, Creative Problem Solving, Designing Solutions and then Not...