Now is the perfect time to change how we approach organizational development since there is so...
The Round Wheels of Change in a Square Wheeled World
Let's face it: Leaders resist change and ideas for improvement. The challenge is to give them some...
Innovation and Change: BIG Sale on Square Wheels!
A conversation turns into an idea and then an illustration is produced. That seems how creativity...
Facilitating? What are we accomplishing?
I play with LEGO. Yeah, and I do it in my training sessions too, focusing on the theme that things...
Stupidly Simple Square Wheels Video: Facilitating Improvement
LEGO. iPhone. Square Wheels. Engagement. Innovation. Involvement. Ownership. See what comes to...
Challengers: People to play Devil's Advocate and Contrarians
Everyday news is awash with examples of bad corporate decisions, the ones that make you wonder,...
Innovation, Infrastructure and Africa – Square Wheels or Round Wheel Choices
For the past 10 years or so, I have been reading the works of my pal, Brian Paxton, in South...
Asking Key Questions to Generate Intrinsic Motivation and Engagement
If you are a regular reader of my blogs, you know that we write extensively on issues of teamwork,...
Keeping It Stupidly Simple – Thoughts on Teams and Teamwork
In a recent LinkedIn thread on leadership, Bob Whipple posted up a short note on "4 Essential...
You CAN herd frogs! Thoughts on Strategy Implementation
Herding cats is a metaphor for trying to organize something unorganizable. So here are some funny thoughts about workplace improvement.
We CANNOT expect involvement and engagement if we play the Blame Frame Game
How can we motivate people when we make them defensive? How can we expect innovation and process...
Getting Things Done – Herding Frogs and Herding Cats
A couple of really good discussions on facilitation and implementation reminded me of The Theme of...
On Teamwork, Trial and Error Improvement, and Blame Frames
Organizational improvement and teamwork tends to be a lot of trial and error improvement. The...
Innovation and Fear of Failure – a blog by Russ Linden
Every so often, I get a blog post that merits a re-posting and Russ Linden is often the author. I...
Decision Making, Creativity, and Implementation
Maybe the title should be, "Engagement, Creative Problem Solving, Designing Solutions and then Not...