This “What Would Frederick Taylor Do” is the third in a series of posts I am doing to share about...
productivity improvement
Competition is TOO High
Competition is TOO High in many organizations. And this is somewhat intentional with unanticipated...
What Would Peter Drucker Do?
This “What Would Peter Drucker Do” is the second in a series of posts I will do to share about key...
The Business Case for Culture Change: Boosting Engagement and Collaboration
The Business Case for Culture Change: Boosting Engagement and Collaboration “What do we need to...
Quiet Quitter or actively Un-Engaged?
Are people Quiet Quitters or just "UN-engaged?" And what pushes so many to make those choices to...
Are organizations burned out around team building?
Are organizations burned out around team building games, given that many of the activities that...
DIS-Un-Engagement – The only real way to engage people for workplace improvement
So often, we see talk of engaging people. In actuality, the only real way to engage people for...
Dis-Un-Engagement – Improving Motivation and Facilitating Workplace Improvement
Dis-Un-Engagement is a simple model that suggests people ARE un-engaged and that managers can...
What makes a great executive retreat?
Eliza Farri ended a really good article, "What makes a great executive retreat" (HBR - July 4....
Radical Reinvention and Culture Change
The reality of change in big, legacy organizations is that it needs a radical reinvention of how...
Contributing Improvement Ideas. The BOSS is the biggest issue
I plan on doing a whole series of posts around some survey results by my friend and colleague,...
MORE on being “Too Busy” to implement new improvements
GENERALLY, most workers in most organizations will say that management does a pretty poor job of...
Round Wheels of Today are the Square Wheels of Tomorrow – Thoughts on Continuous Continuous Improvement
The Round Wheels of Today ARE the Square Wheels of Tomorrow -- simply because things often...
Joan’s 2017 Santa Poem and Haiku about Teamwork and Improvement
Every year, Joan writes and illustrates a poem about the pressures on Santa Clause to improve and...
Branding, Change, Marketing and Square Wheels
We sell simple tools for communications and engagement and have been doing it now for 25 years. We...