Ron Richard, a quality consultant up in Canada, and I have been co-publishing some ideas and he is...
manager as motivator
Leading – Some Simple Ideas on Engagement
There are thousands of books on leadership, so we seem to have the definitions and understanding...
Positive Possibilities – Square Wheels for Performance Improvement
A few people have written that the Square Wheels One image is a negative view of how organizations...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly – A Slideshare program
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly is the theme of my ideas on managing and leading change. I have...
Business Haiku – Possibilities for Organizational Improvement with Square Wheels
While there are problems with employee motivation and performance improvement, it is not always...
Business Haiku – Square Wheels thoughts and ideas
It is well known that images add to imagination and that poems and quips often anchor ideas to...
Teamwork takes too much time. NOT
I just wrote a blog response to a LinkedIn post that I read as saying the one needs time and...
Moron the Issue of Trust – The Residue of Promises
Interesting conversations, we can have online and even occasionally on the telephone (Yes, I still...
Puppies and Performance Improvement – Random Thoughts…
Much of my thinking involves that metaphor of a wooden wagon rolling on Square Wheels with a cargo...
Square Wheels – NOT some simple model of organizational performance
An interesting telephone conversation this morning got me thinking that it might be a good thing...
Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement – Training is NOT the answer
Here are a series of my old Square Wheels line art images and some thoughts about intrinsic...
Continuous Continuous Improvement found by The Caterpillar!
The caterpillar in all of us will probably discover that the world is all about "continuous...
Square Wheels and Round Wheels and Issues of Innovation
In my morning email was a note from Allan Mees along with a picture. His thought was that the...
What does a Russian Lyrical Poet have to do with Workplace Motivation and Engagement?
In this post, I wax philosophic about a suicidal Russian poet and depression and share some...
Bad Dream and Reframing – Improving one's outlook on things
I had written this down on a scrap of paper: "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a...