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Those Awkward Emotions December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

We are settling in with my Mom and Dad who will be with us for the next four months while their house is being built. It is surprising the childhood triggers that surface in close proximity. As usual there are always great lessons. The most significant this morning is how difficult it is to embrace honesty in a culture (family) steeped in history...

Is un-succession planning on your to do list? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Diagnostics, Training No comments

According to dictionary.com the definition of succession is “the coming of one person or thing after another in order.” What if the order that made absolute sense in the past is no longer effective or even relevant? How do you select the best successor when you are charting new territory? Maybe un-succession is a better alternative.

To find some new thinking on the subject I reviewed the writings of someone who has been recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities in thinkin...

Change belongs not to the catalyst but the community December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”

Contrary to popular belief this phrase popularized by Mathew Henry in his commentary on the Whole Bible (1708) is not a quote from the bible. This kind of misattribution, as I am learning from winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast and Slow, is not at all uncommon. We are all thoroughly convinced of many, many connections that are not true.

One such misbelief that is shared by most p...

Is email killing your team’s performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Atos an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries thinks so and is planning to ban email for internal communications by 2014[i].

What is email waste costing you? According to a survey posted in PRNewswire 25% of “email time” is wasted for a total of 15 days per year. Let’s do the numbers

Total employees X (average annual wage + 15% benefits) X 6% = YIKES!!!
Example: 1200 employees X $30/hour = W...

Zapp-Omazing December 15, 2021 Astonishing Service One comment

Last Fathers day I got an awesome big yellow sport watch. Just exactly what I wanted and it goes perfectly with my bright yellow Nike Free’s. Soon after I got it I noticed it would cloud up after sitting in the hot tub. No big deal the fog would eventually go away. This Fall I started to worry that the fog might actually be damaging the watch and it would eventually fail...