Evidence-based People Management – Google Pushes On…
It’s been a while since Google’s “Project Oxygen” got a lot of press. Google’s people analytics team has been looking for the crucial characteristics of outstanding [...]
Marissa Mayer – The Perils of Avoiding Straight Talk
For the past week, Marissa Mayer’s decision to corral the Yahoos has been captivating media outlets and HR professionals. Competitors and work practice experts have been heavily criticizing [...]
Team Collaboration — Reloaded
Today’s business and social goals can’t be accomplished by any one of us alone. Our success depends on each other. While that’s probably no news to you, it’s worthwhile to remind [...]
Competencies Required in Leaders of the Future
The most recent 2012 Towers Watson Global Workforce Study is out – and finds that “companies are running 21st-century business practices with 20-th century workplace practices and [...]
Try Deliberate Crudeness for More Creativity
Why do smart people defend stupid ideas? organizational psychologists found that increased engagement with an idea impacts how open to changing that idea we are. But there is a twist
Can You Say What Your Culture Is?
We have been using the Harvard Business Review classic “Can you say what your strategy is?” lately when facilitating strategy retreats with leadership teams. The article’s authors challenge [...]
Improving Your Team’s “Signal to Noise” Ratio
Imagine you are in a room with loud music. Next to you is a friend who hardly hears what you have to say. You have two choices: Yell louder – or turn down the music. What will you do? Many times, [...]
Group Intelligence: Testosterone Disrupts Collaboration
A few months ago I wrote about some interesting findings from MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence. Looking into what supports group intelligence, the researchers found that individual [...]
The Collaboration Controversy
Welcome to thinking against the grain: Both the New York Times (The Rise of the New Group Think) and the New Yorker Magazine (Group Think: Brainstoming Doesn’t Really Work) presented within [...]
What Bees Do Better Than Most Teams
What supports teams to make good decisions – and to make them efficiently? What kind of leadership is required to support the quality of collective decision-making? And will that quality be [...]
Team Effectiveness Study Pilot Results
What makes team members team players? Collaborative Coaching and Resonance Strategies combine their experience in organizational/team effectiveness and in employee research to explore this [...]
HR Myths: “Leveraging Your Strengths”
“They say ‘practice” makes perfect.’ Of course, it doesn’t. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection.” Henry Longhurst The phrase, [...]
What you can do to make work more meaningful?
What makes work more meaningful? “Help your co-workers and staff see progress.” In their research on ways to increase team productivity, Teresa Ambile and Steven Cramer found that small wins [...]
Are You In The Weeds?
In my work with teams I often hear the same complaint: “we aren’t strategic enough.” I have heard this from Fortune 500 leaders as much as from not-for-profit board members. I have heard this [...]
A Great Truth…
“A great truth is a statement whose opposite is also a great truth.” Niels Bohr I am a fan of Roger von Oechs “Creativity Whack Pack”© and recently found myself adding [...]
