What are you so mad around? Don’t worry… your surgeon knows a lot around your heart He just had no idea what I was talking around. It’s around time you showed up. People just don’t really think around those things anymore. Strategy is all around advantage. If you actually cared…

Being able to dispose of dozens of hard copy publications about strategy is not just being “green” (although I like the double entendre of green being either wise or naive). …

THE INS AND OUTS We usually say that something “has” value or “is valuable” for a pretty straightforward reason: we expect (anticipate, believe) that the “something” will influence an increase of the probability of an intended outcome’s occurrence. Here, the “outcome” is usually “intended” in the sense that we accept…

THE FACES OF CHANGE Currently, the idea of Transformation suffers the usual range of audience reactions from hype to backlash dismissal. In between the extremes, sober inspection returns the attention to understanding why the idea is necessary and what actually distinguishes it as being valuable. In the review below, the…

Fuzzy language promotes fuzzy thinking, and popularity makes fuzzy thinking hard to eliminate. Hardened fuzzy thinking becomes the basis of even more fuzzy thinking and, even worse, of bad decisions that have real consequences including things like confusion, CYA, failure, and dogma. …

Creating a Resilient Infrastructure Civil Society asks not whether its current crisis is existential but whether the way it makes a difference can meet the known need, now. Its ability to network is more than ever evident and energized, due to relentless and inspired commitment by established leaders with and to new leaders. Its…

With HR’s new challenge of solving workforce location changes, there is renewed focus on what “resources” should mean in the “human resources” concept — but it seems to be in debate (!) at the worst possible time. The organization is trying to conduct business change The workplaces needed for the…

Place of Work In the recovery period of today’s pandemic, nearly every day (including weekends) features a discussion about where work is getting done. This is typically framed as a debate about Work FROM Home — regarding how much of a staff can or should work that way, and how much of a…

On any given day, hundreds of job announcements are posted online, targeting candidates who qualify as managers of change. As a HR professional, you’ve already worked through the necessary listing of requirements (responsibilities) and experience (skills). Most likely, your resulting published job description blends items that are considered universally definitive…