Category Affective Leadership

Should HR be Accountable to Employees? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Training One comment

After my June presentation to our local HR group several people asked me why I was not a member. This article from the Wall Street Journal, Companies Say No to Having an HR Department best expresses my reticence to joining. I have posted more than a dozen articles concerning the evolution of HR to this group...

Are You Poisoned by the Past or Powered by the Present? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Social Smarts, Spirit at Work No comments

I am listening to the Small B!G. I like to listen while I run and this book is so packed with simple ideas I often have to turn it off half way through my workout so as not to get to overloaded and forget what I have learned. The best part for me is they are all based on science, not opinion, common practice, folklore or mysticism. Each idea is supported by research and the results are astounding. In the same style as Dan Pink or Dan Ariely the authors use academic research to create app...

Suffering is Surmountable: 25 Steps to Conquering Complacency December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance No comments

United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

“…All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

It is often easy to complain that the present pace and complexity of change is often overwhelming but this quote taken from the first line of the indictment section of the Declaration of Independence reveals how easily we can be lulled into a sense of helplessness...

Historic Wonder & Organizational Blunder December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Social Smarts, Spirit at Work No comments

top down authority incompatible with engagement

If I were a physician I would prescribe a sedative for the hierarchically inclined before reading Gary Hamel’s prelude to Reinventing Management at the Mashup: Architecture & Ideology starting a week from now in NY.

Gary’s insightful article attacks the spurious half-steps of incremental improvement characterizing current bureaucracies as breeding grounds for “sycophants” perpetuating the past while discouraging innovation and experimentation...

What is Peer Powered Performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Spirit at Work No comments

Many people have inquired as to the purpose of our new Peer Powered Performance™ LinkedIn group. In short we wanted to create a place dedicated to those interested in exploring any combination of systems that help to establish:

All-inclusive
Non-coercive
Totally-transparent
Collaborative communities

Peer Powered Performance™ is based on the belief that organizations of all kinds, for-profit and non-profit alike are far more effective and innovative when they are designed for the...

Category Affective Leadership

Should HR be Accountable to Employees?

Are You Poisoned by the Past or Powered by the Present?

Suffering is Surmountable: 25 Steps to Conquering Complacency

“…All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

Historic Wonder & Organizational Blunder

What is Peer Powered Performance?

“…All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”