How's the Climate in Your Organization?
Back before culture surveys, attitude surveys, and engagement surveys, we used to have climate surveys, which were a way to measure the “climate” in an
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Are You Enabling Mediocrity in Your Organization?
Mediocrity is bad for a number of reasons. Workplaces that allow mediocrity also de-motivate high performers. And tolerating mediocrity reduces an organization’s energy and productivity,
Why You Need Your Own Best Practices
There are very, very few companies that have been great over a long time. It’s as if they were able to assemble an organization, a
Should You Fit the Job to the Person, or the Person to the Job?
When I work with a client on organization structure, the question often comes up: “Should we design the job around the person we have, or
The Payoff of a Learning Organization
We learn steadily, every day. And good companies do too. The best companies have hundreds or thousands of employees gaining more knowledge and working better
The most important factor in successful organizational change
Most attempts at organization change fail. Even if the change is eventually successful, the cost is often far higher than necessary. Those costs include complaints
The problem with improving innovation
For years I’ve helped companies improve innovation in a number of ways, and I continue to find that innovation itself is widely misunderstood. Innovation is
How to avoid major problems in your organization
One day a lily pad appeared on the surface of a pond. The next day there were two lily pads. On the third day there
How to Be Twice as Good: The 1% Solution
My mentor, consultant and author Alan Weiss, has a 1% principle. It goes like this: If you (or your organization) improve by just 1% each
Why Not Use a Horoscope?
Assessment tools (Myers Briggs, DISC, etc.) are being touted as useful ways to improve teamwork and productivity. But they’re really nothing more than a way
When Continuous Improvement is Bad for Your Company
Think about it. Google, the iPhone, Facebook, the microwave oven, the CD player…. None of these were a result of continuous improvement. I’m all for