There have been a variety of articles and posts on different leadership development groups taking...
Managing and leading change
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork tends to be a lot of trial and error improvement. The...
Some Square Wheels Illustrated Quotes
There are a few main "one-liners" and memorable quotes that I use regularly in my articles and...
Which is Innovation Reality? You make the choice…
A cartoon of Håkan Forss generated a few reactions about which might better represent...
Implementing Round Wheels to fix the Square Ones
Some simple thoughts about Square Wheels® One and about interactively capturing ideas for improvement.
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 – Square Wheels thoughts and ideas
It is well known that images add to imagination and that poems and quips often anchor ideas to...
Continuous Continuous Improvement found by The Caterpillar!
The caterpillar in all of us will probably discover that the world is all about "continuous...
Flying, Skills, Performance Management and Performance Appraisal – Crazy Thoughts
Sometimes, you just have to jump. Things come together to force you to do something. Sometimes, it...
Strategy Implementations, like most other initiatives, Mostly Fail. Some thoughts…
My good friend and associate, Robin Speculand, has been working closely with organizations on the...
Two Miles of Ditch for Every Mile of Road – Thoughts on Teamwork and Collaboration
Teamwork and Collaboration. Great thoughts and a wonderful concept for organizations. But then...
A Haiku poem on Management and Improvement
I continue to play around with the cartoons and the themes of innovation and improvement in the...
Trust is the Residue of Promises Fulfilled.
Some Statistics on Trust, and some thoughts on solutions. My good friend Frank Navran told me that...
The Isolation of Leadership = A Desk is a Dangerous Place from which to View the World
I've been using the Square Wheels One illustration for a long time, since 1993, and reactions to...
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny: Thoughts on Successful Implementation
"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny" is a famous (although somewhat flawed) framework from...