Blogs
On Diversity Part I: Defining It For Your Organization
The year 2020 truly shed light on social injustice here in the U.S. It also highlighted that many organizations, regardless of the industry, have responded…
Archimedes’ Principle – Of Learning
“You can’t know what you don’t know. You can’t know about things you have yet to discover.” – Jonathan Raymond. Catalyzing people involves the ability…
Kohl’s CEO on Emerging from the Pandemic
The largest department store in the USA is Kohl’s. Founded in 1962, the chain has more than 1,100 stores and 85,000 employees. The company was…
Four Distinct Ways To Deliver Consulting Services
There are different ways to deliver consulting work or to deliver value as a service. Some of those ways could look like any one of…
Where Doctors and Healthcare Fail Patients
Many know a simple form of Ockham’s razor, that being that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Otherwise known as the law of…
Honoring Women in Business: Meet Mary Ellen Pleasant, 19th Century Millionaire & Civil Rights Activist
As we reflect on the contributions of women in history this month, I am reminded of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a self-made millionaire in the 19th…
The Art of Rediscovering Purpose: The Catalyst to Align People in Your Organization
In our work with executives of some of the best-run teams, one of the key difficulties they face is in gaining authentic alignment toward a…
If Your Employees Could Return to Work Tomorrow, Are You Prepared to Let Them in the Building?
At some point in the very near future, whether in two weeks or two months, companies are going to have to manage building access very…
Embedding Organizational Integrity
In this fourth part our 12-part series on the qualities of high-performing teams, we examine how managing organizational integrity propels effectiveness. The Workaround The amount…
Completing The Past Enables Breakthrough Performance
In this 7th installment of our 12-part series on the characteristics of breakthrough performance, we examine the importance of completing the past. Why would high-performing…
What It Takes to Achieve Breakthrough Results
In team meetings across the world, the first few weeks of the year consisted of updates on 2020 goals and to design plans to fulfill…
The New Work-Life Balance: Working from Home With Children
Since the onset of COVID-19 around the world, people are finding that working from home is a required new norm. This has been eye-opening, to…