Well, one of the troubles with profiling... In forming teams, it's a good idea to bring together complementary skills and personality types. Diversity brings performance, though it may not be …
Do you speak the language of resistance?
“Culture change program” “Public sector reform” “Get well program” We hear these phrases all the time. We might even use them ourselves. But there’s a problem... Using language like this, the …
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Universal truth or just your worldview?
It comes as a bit of a jolt: What you thought was something which was true everywhere—that always applied—turns out to be just part of your map, a piece of your programming, in fact. It’s a healthy …
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Enabling learning—it’s all about the egos
Read the literature on organizational learning and you’ll find convincing descriptions of how fear or embarrassment impedes learning by individuals and teams. When something doesn’t turn out as …
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Change yourself, change your company
If you don’t have authority to instruct change (do you ever?), here’s a way to look at what needs to happen... 1. Build rapport with a larger and larger set of people within the entity you hope to …
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How much learning do we need to make something different happen?
“If you are not seeing things properly, you have no hope of any sort of breakthrough,” so wrote Joshua Cooper Ramo in his thought-provoking book “The Age of the Unthinkable”, quoting the Buddhist …
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