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I have the least amount of skill in the organization December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence No comments

“I have the least amount of skill in the organization”.

We might expect to hear this from a new employee, but how would you feel if you were to hear this from the CEO of your hospital? Would you be inspired or think “he should be fired”? The answer to this question says a great deal about your understanding of the role of today’s most influential leaders...

Use imagery to encourage transparency December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence

Simple ideas understood by all are both the salve and the anchors that keep a team’s “eye on the prize” in challenging times. Vineet Nayar in his book Employees First, Customers Second used the story of the “Big Windows” he discovered at a friend’s home in Amsterdam to focus his team on the value (and discomfort) of transparency. He shared this story with absolutely everyone so they all had a common language...

The Upside of Inverting Your Organization December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

This is a MUST READ for anyone serious about giving your front line team FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY.

Recognized as the 2008 the “Number One Best Employer in India” by Hewitt Associates and Business Week. HCLT is propelled by a leadership style described by Fortune Magazine as “The World’s Most Modern Management” CEO Vineet Nayar has been singled out by the London Business School as “the leader of organizational Innovation”...

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...

Social Media Minefield December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence No comments

To start this on the right foot I should disclose that I am an absolute advocate of Social Media. I think it is a great place to add value to your industry and receive invaluable feedback from your peers. I have met people through groups from across the planet whose opinions I honor and whose insights are irreplaceable. I have also belonged to groups that never get the idea that none of us are as smart as all of us. They are stuck on self centered blathering or inconsequential announcements.