At Christmas this past year, my son Steven and dear Anna (his girlfriend) gave books to everyone based on their interests. I received “Thank you for being late – The Optimists Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations” by Thomas Friedman, the NY Times reporter and editorialist and author of the book “The World…
It is not uncommon for a firm to look up and suddenly realize they have to reinvent themselves to “stay in the game.” As a matter of fact, the reinvent-or-die challenges that used to be rare catastrophes are now quite commonplace. What hasn’t become commonplace is a direction about how to meet those challenges. In…
How has a changing workforce affected the type of leadership a company needs?
I was floored reading an article in The Week recently called Recharting the Flow of the Maple’s Sap. I read that for the last bizzillion years real maple has been tapped from the bottom of a tree because it was believed that sap flows downward. “It’s just always been done this way, ” says a…
I was doing some reading on successful ways to make change in an organization. Engaging with influential peers and non-leaders is a great place to start. According to an article from Training & Development Magazine (April 2011, by author, Phaedra Brotherton) employees are often skeptical of proposed changes, and downright distrusting of firm leadership until…