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HR Meeting Resources Part 1: Daniel Kahneman December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Creating Conversociations, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance One comment

Thank you to all of you who attended the June meeting “Hierarchy, Heterarchy, Holacracy Oh My”. I appreciate the opportunity, your rapt attention and kind comments. Many have reached out to me for the promised resources. I am in the process of chunking the slides you requested into short digestible lessons (as per the Khan Academy approach).

The “Bee the Difference” characters included throughout are, like my red high-tops, symbolic of the first and most important step in any sustainab...

Evolution to Inclusion December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance, Social Smarts No comments

There are many books espousing systems from Holacracy to Meritocracy but few that will give you a first-hand account of the fears, failures, successes and stumbles from the view of a CEO. Vineet’s inversion of HCL was painful and productive, divisive and inclusive, respected and reviled. He titles his book Employees First, Customers Second but his actions never marginalized any “value adding alliance”. Customers were more important than ever...

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...

Category Peer Powered Performance

HR Meeting Resources Part 1: Daniel Kahneman

Evolution to Inclusion

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.”

“…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.”