The You: Reinvented series is meant to bring you successfully through the intersection of personally development and leadership success. I have a friend – we’ll call her Jen – who’s on a fast-track to a highly successful career. She’s smart, hard-working, and quite talented at finding new ways to delight her clients. She is also a […] Read more… Read More»
People don’t change just for kicks. Change is always fraught with risk. Often this risk is life-changing, possibly even career-ending, and in some cases it can spell the end of an organization. Most leaders bring change to their organizations late, only under extreme duress from a transformed market. For the past month, we’ve hosted fascinating, compelling […] Read more… Read More»
I think the future of leadership is ultimately about making a significant shift in the way we think and talk about the idea of leadership itself. So I am sorry to have to be the one to break the news to you, but leadership, it turns out, is not about you. I don’t mean to […] Read more… Read More»
Edward Deci, esteemed author and Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester, wrote in his colorful book, Why We Do What We Do, that people need organismic integration. It’s the process through which people develop as they engage in their world (organizationally and personally). But when we apply undue pressure to enact organizational change, […] Read more… Read More»
Are You a Beekeeper or a Watchmaker? During the summer of 1981, with the smell of chocolate in the air, I became the assistant manager in the games division of Hersheypark in Pennsylvania. My specialty within the chocolate themed amusement park was running the water balloon race. You know the game—squirt water into a plastic […] Read more… Read More»
In his 1994 book Job Shift, William Bridges refers to the “job” as “an artifact of the industrial revolution”. The traditional organization is designed to function like a machine. It is a hierarchy with jobs as the building blocks. In this model people are essentially cogs in the wheel of production. This model, and the […] Read more… Read More»
Due to the high pace of proliferation surrounding us, information and technology have become rapidly more available to everyone. What used to be considered radical transformation is now merely change within many organizations; Placing us in a world once dominated by the fortune 500 but not necessarily any longer. With each “Out of Nowhere” success […] Read more… Read More»
“Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.” Seth Godin Today, customers and employees are leveraging social media to improve their trusted network. And yet the majority of businesses are failing to recognize the importance of social collaboration and the opportunity […] Read more… Read More»
We conclude Laura Goodrich’s exploration of focusing on positive outcomes and the impact it has on organizational change and business performance. She explores why using social is not a “dip your toe in the water” management action. She calls upon all of us to get out of neutral and find forward, F-A-S-T! Read Part 1 […] Read more… Read More»
We continue Laura’s Relevant post. Read the first part here. 20 years ago we didn’t even have an internet. Who knows what the jobs will be in the next 20 years? People will be asked to reinvent themselves. For many, this redesign will come at the point when they would prefer to stay with the […] Read more… Read More»
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