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CEO and Organizational Development: Company Scorecard – Surviving a Big Hit
How big of a hit can your organization take? Can you prevent it? What resilience score would you give your organization? Ron Westrum gives some good criteria in Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts. Threats and Timeframe An important issue revolves around the...
CEO and Organizational Development: The Power of Acknowledgement
As CEO, acknowledging individuals and teams for work well done, attitude, and a willingness to pitch in when the unfairness of a situation strikes can increase the speed and accuracy of work and business interactions. Being grounded in honesty, it has an added bonus...
CEO and Organizational Development: The Myth of Peak Performance
From sex to deodorants the push is for peak performance. The message is, “If you aren’t number one then there is something wrong.” After all, isn’t it important to be the biggest, fastest, or strongest? The answer is, to use the classic project management answer, “It...
CEO and Organizational Development: Independence and The Death of Cooperation
As the CEO you know the value of independence in your workers, vendors, and others who support your success. But is there a time when independence promote less-than-optimal performance? Let’s look at this possibility through game theory and The Prisoner’s Dilemma...
CEO and Organizational Development: Building a Team With Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
As CEO your experiences addressing growth and practicing organizational development can have a great deal in common with the experiences of Dr. Jekyll’s friend, Mr. Utterson, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Like Utterson,...
Manage your next project without ruining your team (or your marriage)
Are the projects you lead stress-inducing, adrenaline-filled, usually-work-out-in-the-end, but leave a wake of destruction behind? You know it doesn’t have to be this chaotic, right?
The Secret of Successful Project Management
All business leaders know how critical managing projects successfully is to their company's growth. We have a little secret about projects that will help make them simple for you to lead. “Challenging” summarizes project management well. There is the theory, along...
Lead Your Business Through Change Like a Samurai
How are you leading your business? Let's explore some leadership principles that you can apply to help you lead your business through any challenges, changes, or complexities. Taking your organization through change requires the skills of a samurai - knowing when to...
Set the Stage for Stellar Performance: How Are The People on Your Team Processing Information?
How individuals on your team process information affects team performance.
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