Alignment Based Growth Puts People Together Who Don’t Agree What do you think of the concept, a “Team of Rivals”?—I love the phrase, but it wouldn’t work today in the way that it was originally intended. However, there is a compelling way to put the
How Organizations Today Can Achieve the Impossible Alignment? —I don’t know if you’re like me, but I first learned the term getting the tires on my car rotated. In actuality . . . Alignment is the powerful force . . . . . . that
Superheroes have long been my fascination—as a child, that’s who I always wanted to grow up to be. Ever since I tied one of my Mom’s new towels around my neck and jumped off a dining room chair I’ve wanted to escape human limitations and
Our guest columnist this week is Janet Ply, PhD. Janet earned her PhD from George Mason University in information technology. She is a recognized authority in helping organizations manage complex, high level, high stakes change. She is author of “Luck Is Not a Strategy: An Executive
I’ll be honest with you. This is the craziest, most conflicted, divisive, alarming era I have experienced: A brutal pandemic that keeps pulling us back into its orb…even when we think we’ve gotten past it Repeated seismic shocks to the economy Rampant wildfires in part
The Tough Challenge of Being a MentorYouTube-type skills can be challenging—learning life and career skills can seem impossible—that’s what mentoring is all about. YouTube amazes me. In a matter of seconds you can learn to cook African food, learn to install a garbage disposal, or build
I don’t know about you, but I think that how we manage conflict is perhaps the biggest determinant of how life will go for us. How we manage conflict will determine who we’ll love, how we’ll fit into groups, where we’ll work, how successful
Alignment – Your Essential Guide to Avoid Train Wrecks in Business and LifeA freight train is a hurtling 20,000 ton, 2 mile long, 200 freight car mass of rolling steel moving on a narrow 4’8.5 inch wide track supported by an infinite number of rustically cut wooden
In a really tough and unfair world, being kind is cool—and you can win in life and business by being nice. Most of us will think we agree with this, but when push comes to shove, we tend to think that power wins over being
Winston Churchill saved his nation because he spoke up. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake because she did. People at home or in organizations are applauded, punished or purged every day for what they say—and what they don’t say. There is no doubt
Managing your emotions skillfully is as difficult as a mountain climber rappelling from a vertical ledge. I have to tell you that I don’t have a great reaction pattern to the parade of negative things that happen every day. Mostly I overreact to issues that are
What do I say? When I walk into a room of people—team meeting, social gathering, family—I always wonder who I’ll connect with and what will I say . . . and how they’ll react? A few walk in confident, but for most of us we have an
