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Business Silo Cure and Prevention

[pageview url= http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bk-kvhnEeSs?rel=0” width=”480″ height=”360″] CEO’s, CHRO’s, Engagement officers and other cultural Ninjas in the world of work are in a constant battle against not only the traditional way of doing things, but also need to overcome human nature. There is a passionate cry for some single entity to be in charge and this message must be filtered with reason in order to make progress. The building of walls around organizational units that extend vertically… Read More »Business Silo Cure and Prevention

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

The Brothers Grimm, Walt Disney and the Glass Association of North America would have you believe that mirrors never lie. That is probably true to a certain extent. As we learned from the first attempt to get deep space photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, sometimes a mirror can have hidden flaws that must be corrected to have a clearer picture of the objects we want to see. Unless you are a wicked queen with plans… Read More »Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Nimbility

The word “nimbility” is not in the dictionary. I know because I invented it 15 years ago in a presentation to a client about how to become more nimble in their ability to hire the best talent. A Google search today will find that other people are using that term, but I probably can’t cry foul or plagiarism.  It is just a logical conclusion reached independently by people who never allow a conventional vocabulary to… Read More »Nimbility

Look For the Eureka Moments

The ancient Greek scholar Archimedes was wrestling with a problem. Hiero II, king of Syracuse, suspected that he was being cheated by the goldsmith who had cast a votive crown for a temple. He had asked Archimedes to confirm or deny his suspicions, but substituting other metals for gold in an irregular object was not something that was easily done in the days before laser scanning and 3-D imaging. One day while lowering himself into… Read More »Look For the Eureka Moments

Coping with Irritable People

Is there any more overcooked analogy than the one about the lowly oyster taking a grain of sand and making it into a pearl? If we were to believe all of the motivational quotes, shallow platitudes, flowery poems and religious themes about creating something of beauty out of a painful irritation we would be surrendering our humanity. The oyster opens its shell to be able to gain access to microscopic food and dissolved oxygen through… Read More »Coping with Irritable People