I recently listened to an interview with Howard Schultz, former CEO and Chairman of Starbucks, in which he discussed a formative childhood experience that shaped the leader into which he evolved.
Time does feel winged sometimes...doesn't it? For anyone keeping score, we've got one more quarter to go before the phrase "30 years ago" is officially referencing 1990 (not 1970 as my brain keeps wanting to…
As a person who took “Econ for Psych Majors” in college (with all due respect to my econ-minded psych-majoring compatriots), even I can say the concept of “opportunity cost” was intuitive to me from the…
Change is the new (though not really that new) constant, so they say. It’s one of the core pillars of innovation, agile development, and all the buzzy things. To remain relevant and competitive, organizations must…
Performance Management as a practice has really been pummeled in recent years. Forced rankings, bell curves, and annual reviews… nearly all of its elements have been demonized, thrown to the curb by myriad premiere organizations.
Allow me to (very gently!) beat a dead horse. As my long-time readers well know, it’s my assertion that – for too many of us – work simply isn’t working.
In the past week I’ve had conversations with three different colleagues on this topic; the idea that organizations are continuing to “challenge” teams to do more with less… and that something has really gotta give.