So You Want To Be A Good Leader? These Books Should Help
My friend Wally Bock devoted several posts last week to finding a good business book to read and books to read for your personal leadership development. I took strong exception to some of his...
View ArticleThe Cure Is Worse Than The Disease
The next of Peter Senge’s laws of systems thinking from his book “The Fifth Discipline” is the cure is worse than the disease. This is because the cure often only shifts the burden of the problem to...
View ArticleFaster Is Slower
Bret L. Simmons: Faster is Slower from Bret Simmons on Vimeo. Virtually all natural systems have intrinsically optimal rates of growth. In most systems, the fastest rate is not the optimal rate. When...
View ArticleCause And Effect Are Not Closely Related In Time And Space
Bret L. Simmons: Cause, Effect, Time, and Space from Bret Simmons on Vimeo. When we play as children, problems are never far away from their solutions – as long, at least, as we confine our play to...
View ArticleJ&J CEO: Interesting Apology For Product Recall
I’ve shared the Johnson & Johnson credo with every organizational behavior classes I have ever taught. Their priorities in order are 1) the people that use their products, 2) their employees, 3)...
View ArticlePersonality And The Fate Of Organizations: My Review
I am going to recommend that you read Robert Hogan’s book “Personality and the Fate of Organizations.” I purchased my copy of the book because Bob Sutton refers to it in some of his writings. I want...
View ArticleLeaders: Think About Tucson
On Saturday, January 8, 2011, a gunman killed six people and wounded fourteen others at a gathering in Tucson, Arizona. That seemingly has nothing to do with your personal development as a leader; yet,...
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Leveraging Your Human Capital Investment
Decisions you make as a leader determine if your investment in human capital is leveraged or squandered. Provided the power to act effectively, your employees will make your operations excel. Even...
View ArticleThe Fifth Discipline: Don’t Miss Your Big Picture
A version of this post originally appeared on The Student Branding Blog, March 1, 2010. I’m reposting it here today because today is the last day of my first semester long course in personal branding...
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Problem Solving 101
The first and most important step in the decision making process is identification of the problem. I’ve never known anyone to work on solving a problem without first admitting its existence. If you...
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Tension and Release
I’ve loved the abstract concept of creative tension ever since I first encountered it in Peter Senge’s classic systems thinking book The Fifth Discipline. Creative tension is how people who strive for...
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