Work Naturally.
“Managers should never be allowed to abdicate their management accountabilities and authorities by having HR do what is their job!” I learned this from management guru and past president of Forrest & Company, Nick Forrest (no relation) several years ago when I had the good fortune to work with him briefly. Why mention HR when in a discussion about Risk …
Charles Dhanaraj and George Kohlrieser of the International Institute for Management Development recently addressed how executives’ unresolved grief can affect both their performance and that of the firm. A discussion.
Grief, says Robbie Stamp in his TEDXLondon talk, “is like being thrown into a storm riven ocean.” Robbie as a person is broad and deep, and speaks about how grief is experienced.
What do you say to someone who is grief-stricken by a death? Here’s three things to say that actually mean something.
So, you lost your job. Maybe it really is a “killer job market”. Yet here you are, sending out more resumes, hitting “Apply” in the job website, making the rounds. And nothing seems to be working. You keep at it, but it’s getting tiring. Your spouse, originally so supportive, is asking how long this is going to take. “Mary lost …
I recently sat through a meeting where the discussants, all intelligent people who care deeply about the work under discussion, argued deeply and long without much actually happening. You’ve been in these, too, and you’ve also been frustrated by how people don’t understand when you start talking about what we need to do. But I now don’t have to live …
What does a team do? It depends on who is in it. The Imaginist decision maker sees teams as “teams of persons”. You can’t determine what is should be done until you analyze who is going to do it. Work cannot be separated from who does it because, for the Imaginst, it’s all about the person. Lots of ex-programmers seem …
As I try to get “team” better defined, one of the biggest problems I have — and one shared by Requisite Agility as a whole — is that people use words differently to talk about decisions about action. Teams, as I have started defining them, are all about doing something together, working to a purpose. How we talk about decisions …
To start my “defining of terms”, I thought I’d grab the easy pickings and quickly flesh out a term we all use several times a day: team. It turns out that defining team is extremely difficult, if you want to properly communicate that meaning to a large group of people who have differing ideas about work. After days of struggle, …
As I start things back up in support of the Requisite Agility movement, it’s a good idea to begin with the basics: name things clearly. The naming of things is important. In the Jewish Bible, it’s the first thing God has the first man do: And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl …
