Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
Given the choice between career success and career failure I’ll likely take success. Heck I’m like anyone else; who do you know who hates succeding?
The trouble with success – one of many – is that most of your learning comes from the bumps of failure, not the sweetness of accomplishment. The biggest derailer in my experience as an executive coach is a lack of smaller mistakes and failure early in someone’s career.… Read the rest
We are in one of those periods of great transformational change. Things that we’ve taken for granted, such as hard copy publishing (newspapers, magazines, books, records/CDs) – as well any number the “normal” ways things get done in different sectors and businesses – are morphing in front of our eyes.
The enduring challenge for continuing organizations, even educational institutions like colleges and universities, is to anticipate transformational changes before they occur: gain advantage on any favorable aspects of the change they can as well as figure out how to mitigate the negatives so they don’t sink you.… Read the rest
Life changes, and at times, it changes very quickly. For organizations it can be a game of relentless catch-up as they move to adjust to the benefits – and challenges of technological shifts.
With most people and companies finally getting a solid handle on simple older workplace technology from the 1990’s like e-mail (“Do we really want to put out an all-employees e-mail saying those things?”),… Read the rest