Category: Leadership

I’m going to take you on a longer-than-necessary journey here, but please stick with me. It will be worthwhile. The Industrial Revolution Prior to the…

After writing recently about cultural misalignment and how that impacts employee stress levels, I was thinking about levels of alignment around culture. My proposal is…

I once took a job at a company with a lot of great people and customers, but from the start, something wasn’t right. Looking back…

Decades ago, Sloan School of Management professor Edgar Schein developed a model for understanding and analyzing organizational culture. His model divided an organization’s culture into…

Recently, I’ve been thinking about “The Innovators Prescription”. It’s a good book and worth your time. What has been on my mind though has been…

Most people treat their company culture like it’s something that is inevitable, like something that will arise or change regardless of what they do. This…

Are you struggling to find the employees you need? Like me, do you constantly hear from executives that “no one wants to work anymore”? You’re…

Are you looking to create the ideal job that aligns with your strengths, interests, and abilities? Writing your own job description can be a powerful…

Business is drunk on personality testing. You take Myers-Briggs and find out you’re an INFP or some such nonsense. You take Enneagram and learn that…

Human beings are hardwired for threat detection. Some more so than others. And, some have whatever genetic level of anxiety or neuroticism they were born…