Odds & Sods
Early last year Robert Palevich, of Indiana University–Purdue University, contacted me to request my approval to cite my thoughts from the post Organizations don’t change, people change. This year The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain-How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies was released. Select the above link for an Adobe Acrobat .pdf version or select the picture for a direct [...]
I interact with lots of folks who ask me to review their website and suggest changes. Many people are well-intentioned to join social media or build a site as marketing outlet to promote themselves, their business, their thoughts, their organization, or their community. There are many tools available to launch an manage a quick website. [...]
Next week I will speak at the 2012, STL-ODN Conference. The day’s theme: The Shifting Role of Organization Development in Business. The entire day’s agenda for St. Louis Organization Development Network [for those not familiar with the ODN acronym] is a topic near dear to my heart. So, OD [another acronym for organization development] and [...]
Any talk about change management must start with stakeholder alignment. Quick on any change-rule-heels: risk identification. History provides truly great examples of change challenges and few, in my mind, resonate greater change management challenges than The American Revolution. The players: 13 colonies and their self-interests, as well as the class war within each colony; France, [...]
4 of things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Why being wrong is good for you — CNN.com Most of us go through life assuming we are right, almost all the time, about pretty much everything: our political, our values, our tastes, our religious beliefs, our view of other people, our memory, our [...]
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet … “, iambic pentameter aside, I appreciate Mr. Shakespeare’s point. However, when I look at a word that is recently trending in a lot of companies and organizations, like the word engagement is, it seems context, perspective, and the value proposition truly defines how sweet the [...]
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