The Problem With Opportunities
When I first read Karen Martin’s book, The Outstanding Organization, her definition of a problem versus opportunity stuck with me. “In recent years, it has become popular to avoid the word problem in organizations, recasting it instead as an opportunity...
How To Build A Community of Collaboration
What is a community? Can you have one at work? Should you? If you want more of a community feel, how do you create it? Whose job is it? Senior management? Frontline leaders? The employees? HR? Do programs produce community or do people? Today, I raise more questions...
To Tell The Truth: The Problem with “Positioning”
Framing. Positioning. WIFM (them). Spin. If you are a leader, you have sat in one of these meetings. How do we explain this to them… in a way they can hear, understand, and feel good about? How you position a change matters. A lot. And yet, If you find yourself...
