Young enough to know everything, old enough to know better.
Visually Compelling Organizational Development The work by Kevin Desmond was thoughtful and emotionally charged. It is tough to be a leader in general, but the world today makes it even more difficult. Leadership is something I care deeply about. I strive to be a better leader in the same way that Jascha …
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Being there for a person and helping means you have your attention focused on their needs. I have found that listening to people and helping them sort through their problems can help me with challenges that I face. The best thing to do is to stay focused and help them and be strong for them as they need. Adding your problems to the discussion is a weight added, not a burden lifted.
Small Actions We are all tiny giants walking through this world creating ripples with far reaching and unknown impact. It is a struggle to know if the decisions we make will have a positive impact or a negative one. We can't predict the future, but we can realize that we are all giants. The …
The world is a place of amazing possibilities and more often than not, we have the ability today to do things we only dreamed of as kids. Our children are growing up with the idea of "instant everything." If you want to purchase something and have it the same day or the next day, …
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PM Tips from a Master Gopal Srinivasan https://www.linkedin.com/in/gksrinivasan says if you want to be successful in project delivery consider these tips as you start your initiative. Even with the best planning sessions and strategy the best projects can go off the rails without great leadership. I have witnessed Gopal pulling folks together and getting projects …
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Congratulations! You just purchased a new social tool for your organization. It only cost your company a few bucks to get licenses and there are very little infrastructure costs associated. In only a few short months, your teams will break down silos faster than you could ever have imagined. Software Infrastructure Maintenance including Service Level …
To gain stakeholder buy-in everyone should understand the purpose or need for an activity. Narratives help tell that story.
Walk a Mile If you go to a fitness center and sign up for spin class would you trust your instructor if they looked like this? All too often Knowledge Management "experts" and "consultants" have a great deal of academic experience, theories, data and knowledge but they may lack practical experience and wisdom to understand …
Companies can flog their employees and create fear but today with the younger generations entering the workforce those old practices can't hold up.
A few years back we had television through cable. I was frustrated by the fact that the cable company kept raising the rates. They charged us for every box, they charged us for channels that I wanted to watch in the form of packages. They charged us with confidence that we were either too …
