Welcome to the world
Today our world added its 7 billionth member. Imagine a world population of 7 billion people! While that is staggering, I find the rate of growth even more astounding. In 1999, we had just passed the 6 billion mark, which is 1 billion people in just over a decade. And in just 8 more years, [...]
Why Don’t We Learn?
In 1992 Margaret Wheatley wrote a book, Leader and the New Science. I had it in my bookshelf for probably 10 to 15 years but never got around to reading it, that is, until now. I am amazed at how much she writes is what I present in my book, The Living Organization®. She describes [...]
Why Activity Alone Isn’t Enough
One of the three tenets of The Living Organization® model for creating results is the interdependence of the three energy fields of Activity, Relationship, and Context. The Context defines what the possible range of results can be. Yet, we continually lean on our predisposition to understand everything through the lens of Activity, the energy of [...]
Directors Increasingly Tarnished Image: A New Solution
TK Kerstetter, CEO of Corporate Boar Member, described how the image of Board of Directors have taken a real pounding in a recent blog . He participated in a number of conferences where he had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of directors. He wrote: “ I wish I could have conveyed to the world—or [...]
A Non-Profit Discovers Its Soulful Purpose™
This past weekend we facilitated a strategy session for the board of directors of a local non-profit. Our major objective was to create a greater level of engagement among the board (especially among its large percentage of new members) and to focus their efforts on their number one challenge—funding. Most facilitators would have focused on [...]
Who is to Blame?
We continue to hear people calling for the business community to be more accountable for their actions. Nowhere is this stronger than in the relationship business has with our environment, our planet and its resources. I don’t want to pretend this is a simple issue and one that can be easily addressed. I do not [...]
Executing an Innovative Strategy
As we discussed last week there is a difference between an Incremental Strategy and Innovation Strategy. All strategies are designed to improve performance, which means you are going to do something different than what you are doing. Whenever you establish a new strategy, you are establishing a desire to change something. Whether it is incremental [...]
Employ the Unemployed
I was having lunch recently with the Vice President of a former client. During the lunch she shared one of her pet peeves. “Why do we still hold onto the old belief that anyone unemployed is not as good a candidate as those that are currently employed?” Read more…
Sorry, Mr. Welch.
Like all of us, I rely heavily on the media’s representation of the facts. In a number of articles I have penned recently, I ascribed the birthing of the “shareholder value” movement to comments made by Jack Welch at his 1981 annual shareholders meeting. I assumed this was accurate–as I have heard this from many [...]
Strategic Planning is Dead – Setting a Sound Strategic Direction is Not
If you don’t know where you are going, any direction will get you there. By now you know that I am not a big proponent of the traditional annual strategic planning process. Yet I do feel very strongly that one of the key objectives for these sessions is still critically important; perhaps even more important [...]
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