My friend Lou Carloni has been sharing ideas about people and performance for many years and a...
manager as motivator
Psychopaths tend not to “procrastinate or take things personally”
The title comment was a one-liner in a SmartPlanet post by Charlie Osborne entitled: The key to...
What are The Square Wheels Toolkits and why do they work so well?
Since 1993, we have been working with interactive "cartoons" and sharing the related tools as...
Square Wheels – Going Viral on People and Performance
Jonah Berger's recent book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, is about why things go viral in...
Simplicity – Thoughts of Da Vinci, Einstein, Rockwell and Simmerman
In a blog post "Simple Isn't Simple" by Dan Rockwell, he said: Any fool can create complex....
Managing The Mavericks – Caring for the High Maintenance Employee
Lisa Woods penned a really great article on managing the people who are the atypical and hard to...
What do you do when they do things PERFECTLY – some thoughts on team building
This blog is about Perfect Performance and shares some ideas about how we can support teams and...
Team Building – Failures and Designing for Success
My friend Andrew Grant at Tirian is an Aussie and a great writer and thinker about all things team...
Managers – Biggest Contributors or Biggest Problem?
Are Managers the Biggest Contributors or Biggest Problem? I strongly believe that they could be...
Workplace Motivation – “I Quit! Nevermind. Whatever…”
"I Quit! Nevermind. Whatever..." is my anchor point for what seems to happen often in the...
Illusions and Management – Some thoughts about Reality
I posted up what I thought was a pretty fun blog last week, one that used illusions as the tool...
Is HR the Puppet Master or the Puppet?
There was a great post this morning by Dan Rockwell on his blog, part of which I reproduce here...
Innovate & Implement – an exercise linked to getting things done
We've been playing with the design of a package focused on innovation for a couple of years. Since...
Thoughts on Millennials, Workplace Aging, Conflict, and Innovation
Three different articles this morning got me thinking about the workplace. One was by Lisa Woods...
On Performance, Teamwork, Millennials and Collaboration
I got an email flyer on workforce development from ASTD this afternoon and thought to paste a...