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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...
Teamwork and Square Wheels and Implementation
It was a nice surprise to have a customer put up a really nice blog about my Innovate and...
Can Creativity be Taught? Is that the RIGHT Question?
Dr. Scott Simmerman is an experienced presenter who uses his Square Wheels® tools to better involve and engage people in workplace improvement.
Alternate Versions of our Spring Forward Monday Square Wheels engagement tools
We have created some alternative versions of our toolkit and handouts for employee engagement. One...
Free Engagement Worksheet Tool for Spring Forward Monday
We've been using Square Wheels as a simple tool for employee involvement and engagement for 20...
Daylight Savings Square Wheels Haiku – a Poll
I continue to play with spinning ideas around business haiku and people and performance. So,...