Category: Trust

On Competition

Gary Hamel on his Man­age­ment Inno­va­tion Exchange web­site has writ­ten a fine post on empow­er­ing nat­ur­al lead­ers, con­trast­ing the pow­er of the inter­net with the pow­er of for­mal hier­ar­chies. Along the way, he writes: The Inter­net is flat, open and mere­tri­cious. Nev­er­the­less, there are thou­sands of nat­ur­al hier­ar­chies online. Pick any sub­ject, search the blo­gos­phere,… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Com­pe­ti­tion

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Team Trust Survey, the Website

I am very hap­py to announce that the Team Trust Sur­vey — a free tool I have pre­vi­ous­ly offered lead­ers and their teams to help with their trust build­ing work — now has its own web­site: teamtrustsurvey.com. The sur­vey enables peo­ple to talk about their rela­tion­ships, goals, and team envi­ron­ment with­in a struc­tured frame­work. The… Con­tin­ue read­ing Team Trust Sur­vey, the Website

No Matter Which Way We Turn Wisdom Will Find Us

Many years ago I worked with a pub­lic agency, improv­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions with­in one of the depart­ments. I had an in-house depart­men­tal con­tact per­son coor­di­nat­ing some of my activ­i­ties who, like me, was pas­sion­ate about pos­i­tive orga­ni­za­tion­al change. At some point after the com­ple­tion of my work, I learned there had been prob­lems again in the… Con­tin­ue read­ing No Mat­ter Which Way We Turn Wis­dom Will Find Us

On Being For One Another

My moth­er and father were sev­en­teen years old in 1929, so I grew up hear­ing about the Great Depres­sion. I recall the sto­ries, most­ly from my moth­er, about how mil­lion­aires jumped from win­dows on Wall Street as they real­ized their for­tunes were worth­less. My father’s sto­ries were also extreme. He had been a refugee in… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Being For One Another