wisdom and weirdness of enterprise performance

If you're a follower of innovative leadership or management practices, you'll no doubt have seen some of the breathless statements about Zappos' planned (or impending) move to Holacracy. What's a Holacracy? I won't spend your precious time recounting...

Meta-cognition. Thinking about thinking. In today's harried, data-soaked world, we rarely get time to think about how we think. The holidays are a good time for that.

If we don’t notice what we don’t notice, we’re much more likely to fall prey to poor...

I believe the quote by Churchill goes something like, "success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Some people can't do that.  Turns out it's a mindset thing.

Carol S. Dweck, the Stanford psychologist, researcher and...

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it was a nail.” Abraham Maslow.

The tools you use everyday at work have an influence on how you see things and how you approach problems. Craftsmen are very...

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), more commonly known as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is a neurological condition that has a genetic component and can be aggravated by environmental and physical factors. The negative characteristics...

We define employee engagement (a term that is widely used and misused) as an employees’ willingness and ability to contribute to company success. And the current level of employee engagement isn’t good.

An excerpt from Gary Hamel’s blog at the Wall...

You know this story….

You and your leadership team spend months putting together your yearly plan leading up to the start of your coming year through off-sites, conference calls, one-on-one meetings, cascading team meetings, summary meetings, draft...

 If you think of the items we have outlined in the Noise section as symptoms, the Science-to-Business Gap should be classified as one of the diseases that causes these symptoms. I'll write about four other diseases in future posts (Sublinear...

It seems most technology intended for the enterprise is either being tagged with "social" or "collaboration" monikers these days. We understand the need to put new labels on things to grab attention, but both of these are being vastly overused and in...

Those who were fortunate enough to attend the MIXMashup, were treated to three general themes to start the day: The End of Hierarchy, The End of Bureaucracy, and The End of the Employee.

Terri Kelly from W.L. Gore tackled the End of Hierarchy (see my...