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Ten Actionable Ideas for Applying 77 Reading Recommendations December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Diagnostics, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance, Spirit at Work, Topics, Training No comments

We become like what we think about most.

I don’t know when first learned that idea but it has shaped the path of my adult life for more than 30 years. These are a sampling of books, articles and authors. Some new, some old. I would categorize them into four areas. Business, Neuroscience, Psychology and Spirit. Their priority depends on where you are on your own personal path.

Here are ten actionable ideas for finding the perfect resource for you.

Find a resource that resonates with you and stick with it.
Don’t read it, or li...

Innovation, Can there be Trust without Transparency? December 15, 2021 Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Green Solutions, Peer Powered Performance No comments

Despite endless exhortation of organizational innovation only 9% of U.S. companies are considered innovative. The problem is not an absence of talent but an undermining of trust. Innovation requires risk, failure is a fact and fear keeps most close to the warm fires of familiarity. The initiative to improve is successfully smothered by systems steeped in secrecy, committed to control and failing fabulously to do anything even remotely revolutionary.

Most efforts for organizational improvem...

HR: Humane Resources December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance

Hierarchical designs created before color television

Twenty years ago after creating the new employee “Service Camp” for the Coeur d’Alene Resort I was given the opportunity to move from operations to HR. I loved the possibilities but hated the realities. Too much time limiting liabilities and very little investment in growing resources. (Oh, and I also hated the little office in the back hall.) In the nearly two decades since, I find that for many (not all), little has changed.

There are still far too many resources devoted to protecti...

How a “bland” balloon lifts us all December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence, Keynote Keys, Spirit at Work, Video Samples No comments

Today is the 13th anniversary of the most horrific international experience many of us have ever experienced and professionally a challenge I hope never to repeat. Friday September 5, 2014 was my third opportunity to provide the opening keynote for the Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s Annual Employee Appreciation day. This year could not have been more perfect but thirteen years ago it was an entirely different story.

Our first event was scheduled to begin just moments after the second ...

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...