You're so proud of your new vision statement. It sounds nice. Inspiring, even. But the vision is useless unless it can direct action. Your vision lays out a destination; your destination guides your strategy; and strategy chooses action. It's action that leads to...
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Give Your Organization Serious Traction
When we're getting traction on something new, we typically have a week's worth of work to do, and an hour to do it. The International Labor Organization says Americans win the prize for the most overworked people in the world.1 We're productive, not because we work...
Making it Right with Wronged Employees
An executive team laid off a group of employees here in Canada in order to outsource to an Asian country. They can't find talent in the new country, work has stalled, and management tries to cajole laid-off employees (all talented, experienced peak performers) to...
Election 2008: Blech. Where’s the wisdom?
I've been watching the election with bated breath. Well, ok, I've been watching it mainly with a feeling of disgust. There's been hour after hour of talking heads evaluating the horse race and ignoring issues. Or at best, they whine about how the media is ignoring...