Robert Galford’s HBR Blog Network article, “How to keep your cool during a performance review” suggest there is a widespread abhorrence and likely fear of the annual performance review. To make what is often a not-so-good experience better Robert offers four tactics: relax; prepare yourself to hear one or more unexpected ‘somethings’; if you don’t [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Systems Thinking’
Performance Appraisal: Pathway to Mistrust
Posted in Leadership, Management, partnership, Quality, Relationships, tagged Culture, Decision-making, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, organizational design, partnership, Progress, Quality, relationships, Systems Thinking on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Time to Get Heretical
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, Systems Thinking on January 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Capitalism is so much held in reverence that for some it is like a religion. In fact people proudly proclaim I’m a capitalist! Seemingly it provides the guiding principle for behavior and thus the basis for how to structure life. In effect (putting their faith in capitalism) people have allowed the pursuit of (personal) wealth [...]
Rethinking a Fixed System
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Economy, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, Moral Values, partnership, Problem Solving, Progress, Quality, relationships, Systems Thinking on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is the system broken? No, not at all! It is fixed just as desired. Our economic system has no (explicit) concern for ‘we’ in its design, it is all about ‘me’ getting what I can for ‘myself’—it is best labeled an egoistic economic system. The pursuit of material self-interest is the guiding principle for [...]
What’s a Frog To Do?
Posted in Economy, Life, Systems Thinking, tagged Business of business, Change, Economy, Ethical Principles, Progress, Systems Thinking on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I assume most are familiar with the parable of the boiled frog. Briefly, just to refresh your memory, a frog placed in a cool and comfortable body of water that is continually rising in temperature will not sense the incremental temperature change from the immediate past to present moment and remain in the water until [...]
Retaining Talent
Posted in Leadership, Management, partnership, Quality, Relationships, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, management, organizational design, partnership, Progress, Quality, relationships, Systems Thinking on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a Forbes.com article Eric Jackson presented the following top ten reasons why large companies fail to keep their best talent.
A Wake Up Call
Posted in Change, Life, Problem Solving, Progress, Relationships, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Economy, human spirit, Learning, partnership, Problem Solving, Progress, Systems Thinking on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The fact that Wall Street and other corporate executives are not only allowed but helped in gaining so much from the general public while they generally thumb their nose at the general public is not the problem, though it is symptomatic of a serious problem. The fact that more and more people continue to lose [...]
Better Questions Afford Better Solutions
Posted in Education, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Decision-making, Education, human spirit, Leadership, Problem Solving, Quality, Systems Thinking on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There seems to be a debate over the use of standardized test results for accountability as the way to improve student achievement, and thus our education system. Effectually, this debate is turning attention away from understanding the concrete educational experience toward the abstract measures. No wonder teachers and children have to be incentivized to respectively [...]
Reflection #3 on Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Progress, Systems Thinking on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If the Occupy movement is to succeed then it must lead us to understand that the economic system is not broken but that it is fundamentally flawed. What we are experiencing is nothing but an ill-conceived system taken to its inevitable conclusion: The privatization of society and the growing divide between the haves and the [...]
The Gravity of Vision
Posted in Leadership, Relationships, Systems Thinking, tagged human spirit, Leadership, Moral Values, organizational design, relationships, Systems Thinking on October 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Gravity of Vision In our universe what keeps things together? In a general sense what brings chaos to order? Gravity. For without it every person and thing would be cast into space, floating aimlessly, making for quite a chaotic existence. If not for gravity then nothing would be at rest on earth. Moreover this [...]
Rethink or Reload
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Problem Solving, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Decision-making, Problem Solving, Progress, Systems Thinking on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In his OP-ED column in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman briefly summarizes two books, “The Great Disruption” by Paul Gilding and “The Power of Pull” by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown & Lang Davison that each speak to the many social protests (a.k.a. The Great Disruption) we are seeing throughout the world—Occupy Wall [...]
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