How to Close the Knowing/Doing Gap
Awareness without aligned action doesn’t Read more >
Before You Promote Someone, Do These Two Things…
Usually managers are excited to promote someone in whom they see great potential and whose excellent work they want to reward. In this excitement, managers often express how much they believe in the team member and share all of the upsides and opportunities to be gained in the new role.
Yet many of these promotions don’t go as hoped – especial Read more >
Exceptional Example of How to Operationalize Your Values
Many organizations work hard to define their values. They then publicly post those values for all to see. While both of these efforts are key and commendable, it’s not until your values are operationalized within your organization that they’re living and breathing.
One of the most powerful ways to operationalize your values is to take Read more >
Balanced Action & When the Plan is Flawed
Unfortunately many companies fall on the extremes of the action pendulum: left, paralysis by indecisiveness or nauseatingly perfecting a plan, or right, acting haphazardly on every shiny blinky good idea that presents itself
Both of these are motivated by a fear of failu Read more >
As You Grow, How do you Keep that “Lovin’ Feelin”?
There’s an interesting assumption that it’s harder to have a great company culture in a large company and recently I was asked, if you’re a small company going through fast growth
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