I continue to play around with the cartoons and the themes of innovation and improvement in the...
Managing and leading change
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...
Moron Engagement – The Concept of Dis-Un-Engagement
This post is about doing things differently. It is about looking for ways to remove the things...
Even Dilbert Understands this Engagement Stuff
In one of my groups, a reference was made to one of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon strips that...
Improve Your Engagement of People: The Square Wheels Facilitation Toolkit!
If you are looking for a simply toolkit to impact people and workplace performance improvement,...
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
Teaching The Caterpillar to fly is a flexible and impactful framework for discussing change and...
Interdepartmental Collaboration’s Vital Link to Organizational Profitability
HR Management Magazine asked me for an article a while back and I thought to make a copy of it...
Workers and Managers, Jobs and Pressures
A 2012 survey by the Leadership Management Australasia of organizations in Australia and New...
Dis-Un-Engagement – thoughts for impacting employee engagement in the workplace
A series of different LinkedIn posts in my lists have focused on the general theme of "employee...
Nothing Made Sense… Who cares!
There was a post up in one of my LinkedIn groups about the fact that there is another definition...
Facilitating Engagement, Alignment and Involvement with Cartoons
Let me share some ideas about facilitating engagement, alignment and involvement with cartoons, my...
Nobody ever washes a rental car – Thoughts on engagement and ownership
"Nobody ever washes a rental car." I've been using this phrase for dozens of years, since it...
On Trial and Error, Blame Frames and Gotcha’s: Engagement? Innovation? Really?
Engagement and Innovation are NOT easy things to do, yet they can be accomplished if one remembers...