Greetings Leaders! This is the third posting in the series, How to Run Better Meetings. The first posting dealt with executive sponsorship The second with having meetings with purpose This posting will address getting people to come to your meetings. So let me start off by asking a question. Why don’t people come to meetings? […]
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Greetings Leaders! This is the second posting on How to Run Better Meetings. In the first posting, we discussed the importance of getting executive sponsorship to improve meeting effectiveness across the organization. Today we are going to look at the first tactical step in improving the outcomes of meetings that YOU lead. I am defining
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Greetings Leaders! I was reading the Sacramento Bee yesterday when I came across a relatively short article that caught my attention. The Chancellors at UC Davis and UC San Francisco are both getting pay raises, while student fees are increasing (You can read the article here…). Linda Katehi chancellor of UC Davis, will be bringing
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I was listening to Fresh Air on National Public Radio this morning while driving between clients and they were discussing the Spanish Court’s investigation of the Bush Administration’s role in the torture of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay. What caught my attention was the discussion of SERE School (Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion) having been
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Greetings all… I love WordPress. Well, perhaps not as much as my family and friends, but I do like it a lot. Why? WordPress tracks the search terms people use when they find my blog. This allows me to stay relevant, and more importantly, to give all of you answers/feedback to questions you are asking.
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I just finished reading an article written by Thomas Friedman called Are We Home Alone?. The article, an Op-Ed in the New York Times, was about the lack of Inspirational leadership in our government and corporations. Friedman’s comments were well put and timely. I want to expound just a bit on his basic premise that
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If you have been following the economy for the past year you’ve heard it said more than once, that the complex transactions that the financial industry entered into over the past 5 -7 years are the reason our economy is currently in shreds. If we just untangle things like complex credit default swaps, the economy
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The other night in class, we were discussing leadership and I asked the class if anyone could become a leader. The point I was trying to make was that while most professions require some sort of qualification before they allow someone into their group, there is no test for leadership. Physicians, Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, Teachers,
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I was recently interviewed by ITWorldCanada.com (the article isn’t out yet) about how to maintain employee morale during times of economic uncertainty. Keep in mind that I’m an OD practitioner, and not a lawyer. Keeping morale up is difficult when all we hear is bad news everyday. This is probably the worst economic crisis since
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Groupthink: According to Wikipedia, Groupthink can be defined as “a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.” The term was coined in 1952 by William Whyte in Fortune magazine. After
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