Seth Godin has a podcast episode on Akimbo about getting picked for a team (You’re It). Very few of us were consistently picked first, and many of us recall at least once when we were picked last. It was horrible, and we made it worse by believing that it actually meant something about us – […]
The Blind Spot in Want Ads
“The major blind-spot in want-ads is an assessment that we need to increase the number of people engaged in production, rather than increasing the production of value through the identification and elimination of waste. One thing contributing to this waste is that many organizations have yet to fully define, clarify, focus, or generate commitment […]
Don’t Read This!
Too late… you already read the title, didn’t you? Well, there’s actually a deeper point here and it involves reading the signs within our organizations. The peculiar thing about learning to read is that once we know how, it becomes very difficult to look at printed words without actually reading them. It’s one of the […]
Competence-based training
Marcello Tobar asked about Competence-based training on LinkedIn: “Competence-based training is popular nowadays. I wonder if there is enough evidence to state that competence-based training is better for increasing performance of trainees as compared with more traditional training forms (competence understood as a combination of knowledge, skills, and attitude). If so, what are key elements to […]
Is a lack or fear of conflict really a dysfunction of a team?
“In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, lack of conflict was identified as one of the 5 reasons why a team can be/is ineffective. Personally, I do not have any issue with healthy conflict, so this was not a difficult concept for me to adopt. However, many leaders discourage conflict in their […]
