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You are the decisive element December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence No comments

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or dehumanized...

Is email the bane of nonprofit progress? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Most nonprofit boards are risk averse so we find that the most effective way to make significant progress is to invest our own time and money to develop, test and prove service systems without any form of guarantee or initial investment required by the board. In the first year we typically lose money but once we work out all the bugs and have successful systems in place we are typically treated like valued partners and compensated fairly for continuing to provide the service...

If you want to really be happy, learn to do less. December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work No comments

Lasting change is not the result of some new “to do” on our already too long list. The change we seek is not found in doing more, but surprisingly the secret is found in learning to do less.

If we want to really be happy (and who in their right mind would say they don’t) we need to let go of our compulsion to judge, attack, blame, regret, be right, and most of all our belief that choosing to be unhappy is a necessary even moral obligation...

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...