I just posted up Part Three of my slides on the issues around managing and leading and...
Organizational Development Tools
Learning – What it really is, illustrated
I was reading an article about education and the thought struck me that I can illustrate and...
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...
Annotated Abstracts of Management Team Building articles
Many of my posts are descriptive of ideas for business management team building exercises and...
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration
Sabotage, Defense, Engagement and Workplace Collaboration are common issues in many of today's...
Lessons from The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, a game on teamwork and collaboration
There are many lessons that can be learned from playing team building games and actually improving...
Communications, Pressure, and Stepping Back from the Wagon
We use the metaphor of "Stepping back from the Wagon" as a way of saying that perspective and...
Thoughts on Team Building – Cross-Cultural Impacts of Lost Dutchman
The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine really works well cross-culturally and I was reminded...
Thoughts on building a high performance environment – Teamwork and Flow
"Flow" is a simple concept that relates challenges to skills, with the understanding that the two...
Rewarding High Performance in The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine teambuilding game
Managers do not often deal with good performers in effective ways. Relying on extrinsic rewards is...
People, Leadership, Engagement and Implementation – Best Practices
Robin Speculand and I go way back -- I do not want to count the years but it is more than 20. He...
Large Group Team Building Events – Using Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine and Square Wheels
I was asked about using the Lost Dutchman game for working in large group team building events a...
Testimonial on LDGM from a consultant user
He has used our game for a number of years in different kinds of consulting situations, not so...
“In The Beginning” — Thoughts on Communications
For some reason, the issue of upwards communications of information and filtering keeps coming up...