There are a lot of people talking about engagement these days, and in particular employee engagement. Although the theorizing and conceptualizations are rich and, excuse the pun, engaging, the research has not quite established that these great models are anything more than elegant and fascinating. In my own work I do see some things that ...
There are many ways to understand how to proceed when facing a new possibility or challenge or when wanting or needing to do things differently. In “Switch” the newest Heath Brothers book, a distinction is made between the rational mind and the emotional mind. Arguing from neuroscience, among other disciplines, they offer a model for ...
I have a business school colleague, Mark Frisse, who is brilliant about any number of things. One thing we often joked about was the various systems of esoteric knowledge, the most often cited, The Illuminati. And what better place to talk about esoteric knowledge than Business School? I am thinking about Mark, esoteric systems and ...
I just finished a call with a client who said that for years by 10:00 am on Monday morning he already felt like the week was overwhelming his necessary work with “stuff.” I asked him what changed. He told me about a simple process that he uses when starting his day on Monday. I asked ...
Recently I was in California giving an ethics workshop – “Bad Apples or Bad Trees?” – to a group of investment professionals. From what I can tell, interest in this topic has spiked recently. I know this because – in my usual way of preparing for such a workshop – I have burdened friends, family, ...
I found this piece a fascinating and simple one. Social Media Identity: Personal vs. Professional There may be less room for the distance depicted between the two identities as time goes on with the quality and quantity of information in the web world about us and our identity(ies). Still, this is well worth a read. addthis_url ...
I spent the last three days working on a retreat for a team of senior level leaders for a non-profit. One of them is quite excited about this TED video by coach Coach John Wooden on True Success It is a powerful statement about developing one’s assets and/or the assets of others, whatever they might ...