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Daniel Boone once said, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." Many team and organization transformation and improvement efforts are lost or badly bewildered. Besides riding in smelly cabs, eating rubber chicken (or ... More...

Recently a client of mine asked when she should be using icebreakers. My client was particularly concerned about an upcoming meeting that she has to facilitate with a new group. She wanted to open with an engaging activity that would get attendees ta... More...

Companies are increasingly turning to music to inspire creativity and foster innovation with their workforces. With so many large corporates scheduling their annual 'kick off' meeting in Q1, the most common message leaders are sending to their senio... More...

A Rite-Aid drug store recently moved to my town, which made me think of my father's drugstore business of 30 years ago. My father was a pharmacist. He owned and operated different drug stores for more than 25 years. His last store was located in a sm... More...

What makes a memorable TV commercial, product design, or marketing campaign? Why do you listen to certain politicians or business leaders, and glaze over at the very mention of others? Why is it that you dread opening certain senders' emails, but ope... More...

There are two distinct ways to use employee communication; one is to inform employees about what is happening in an organization, the other is to engage employees in the process of change. In this article we are going to highlight 3 case studies that... More...

Co-authored by Louellen Essex and Mitchell Kusy Being political is essential in today's workplace. Whether you're a manager or rank-and-file employee, if you refuse to play the game or resist getting good at ityou'll miss out on important oppor... More...

Employees do not believe their organizations or their senior management are doing enough to help them become fully engaged and contribute to their companies' success, according to a new global workforce study conducted by Towers Perrin, a global prof... More...

I was recently reading a Consulting Magazine article entitled "The Cloistered Corporation and found the following interesting and troubling. According to the article;If your company is within your industry's top revenue quartile today, there is a 30... More...

Mergers and acquisitions have strongly rebounded from the downturn in 2001-2002. But many still fail to deliver value to the shareholder. To avoid pitfalls and better manage the process, many companies have begun to structure and formalize their inte... More...

The following posting is adapted from the new book Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues, and Your Organization. If there was ever a time for HR leaders and professionals to make a real difference it is now, wh... More...

Like it or not, all teams are potentially dysfunctional. This is inevitable because they are made up of fallible, imperfect human beings. From the basketball court to the executive suite, politics and confusion are more the rule than the exception. H... More...

Imagine you're in charge of implementing a major change in your organization. It could be a new way to roll out marketing plans, a directive about training, different responsibilities and accountabilities for teams, or even a major organizational res... More...

There is a small almond shaped region in our brains, called the “Amygdala”. It is one of the most primitive regions deep in the base of our brains. As business owners we need to get intimately acquainted with this lump of cells in your cl... More...

Four generations in the workforce is now a critical issue with implications for HR, for marketing and indeed for business management and certainly workforce planning. Please here click to read the entire transcription. More...

Anniversary acknowledgements of past crises tend to enhance awareness that the next event is most likely just lurking in the shadows. Is it going to be another terrorist attack or will Mother Nature wreak havoc on us again? Trying to be prepare... More...

If I’ve noticed anything about the thousands of companies I’ve been exposed to over the years, it’s that the successful ones have a successful attitude. Their workers provide the source of financial security, pride, and a sense of t... More...

Nikos Mourkogiannis is a senior partner at Panthea Strategic Leadership Advisors, a global consulting firm advising chairmen and CEOs on leadership strategy. Nikos lives in London. In addition to being senior partner at Panthea, he is also sen... More...

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction." — E. F. Schumacher, 20th century German economist and conservationist The... More...

My friend, Dr. David Ulrich, is a highly respected thought leader, wonderful person and perhaps the world’s top HR consultant. Dave once taught me that effective performance can be seen as a function of the quality of an idea times the employee... More...

As human resources executives look ahead from the fourth quarter to budgets for 2007, they face these perennial questions: How much say do we have in the budget process? Do we have enough pull to reap a payoff from the company’s investments i... More...

The brightest business ideas and strategies will fail or yield suboptimal results in an obstructive culture. Resistance to change, territoriality, silo mentality, lack of trust, fear, unidirectional communication, inbreeding, blame game, egomania (se... More...

From all the information I read on the various HR issues, in the wide variety of communities, it seems to me that the whole thing boils down to communication: Loop people in on what's going on in a company, and they'll feel like they are a part of it... More...

There was once a time when New York City held the sole claim to the moniker, “the city that never sleeps.” But due to a growing workload and an ever expanding work day, that designation no longer applies only to the Big Apple.... More...

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Keys to Personal, Team, and Organization Transformation

The Importance of Breaking the Ice!

Music Fosters Innovation and Strengthens Teams

Changing is Not Good Enough; You’ve Got to be Changeable

How to Make Your Messages Memorable

Employee Communication: 3 Ways To Create Transformation In Organizations

Playing Office Politics: How to be “Good” at the Game

Playing Office Politics: How to be “Good” at the Game

Towers Perrin Study Finds Significant "Engagement Gap" Among Global Workforce

How Smart Companies Make Their Business Work Better: Two Shocking Facts

After Years of Trial and Error, Companies Take a More Focused Approach to M&A Integration

Unlocking Genius in Yourself and Your Organization

Conquer Team Dysfunction

Common Mistakes in Managing Organizational Change

Your Customers, Their Amygdala and Sabre-Tooth Tigers.

Four Generations in the Workforce

Flawed Assumptions in Crisis Management: The best laid plans that go astray……

Who's Your Chief of Attitude?

Thought Leader: Nikos Mourkogiannis on Purpose - What Every Organization Needs For Enduring Success

Decentralized Organization Structures Empower and Energize

Their Commitment Might Mean More Than Our Insight

How HR Can Grab Budget Influence

Executives’ Role in Cultivating an Innovative Culture

Communications are the Key

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