Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Quality Digest – Ten Steps to Better Executing Your Strategic Plans
Most everyone has read the maxim, “Plan your work and work your plan.” This is simple and effective advice—when it’s followed. Unfortunately, it can also be overwhelming when it comes to ensuring that everyone in the organization knows what the strategic plan is and how they can directly support it. Executives assume that creating strategic…
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Quality Digest – The Building Blocks of Organizational Psychology, Part 2
In my last article, I presented the psychological steps of change and how to overcome the natural human resistance to it. In this installment, I’ll present an example of how to transfer those concepts into plans, the plans into actions, and the actions into continuous behaviors. This process might be considered as a look…
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Quality Digest – The Building Blocks of Organizational Psychology, Part 1
As a consultant and trainer specializing in the field of organizational psychology, I’ve come to realize that certain psychological conditions that affect individuals also apply to companies as a whole. That makes sense because, after all, a company is nothing but a collection of people. In this series of articles, I’ll demonstrate how some of…
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Bob Dylan & Frank Sinatra on the subtleties of Conversational Communication
Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra on Conversational Communication I was sitting in the doctor’s office the other day and read an article about Bob Dylan. In his recent album he sings songs from the 20’s through the 40’s and refers to Frank Sinatra. Dylan shared what made Sinatra so great is that “he sang…
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Leadership Evaluations for Higher Performance
August 2013 A Brief Overview on Leaders Exceptional leaders tend to share a common desire: knowing which problems exist in their organization, so their people, processes and systems can either be improved or removed. After winning the 24 hours of Le Mans, Mario Andretti was asked by a reporter what it felt like to drive…
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How to Improve Employee Development
August 2013 Staff Development (Methodology) This is where you are, but… THIS is where you WANT to be… No buy-in and no follow through from participants once they return from a workshop or training. Trainings are ineffective or off-target and result in poor recall on Monday morning when trying to implement the new skills. People…
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How to Coach & Manage People Through Change
August 2013 This is where you are, but… THIS is where you WANT to be… People attend meetings, but they clearly aren’t working together nor are they working toward the same goals.Some people are overly cautious and quiet while others are playing a silent game of tug-o-war. Problems, both spoken and unspoken, are discussed…
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How to Manage Organizational Change
August 2013 This is where you are, but… THIS is where you WANT to be… We find ourselves re-doing our project plan and spinning our wheels. People are not working as a team. Increased cross-functional collaboration and communication. Higher degrees of participation from all members, at all levels. Less “failure work;” problems solved the…
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Innovate Or Die
August 2013 This article was written back in 2007 in the beginning of the recession, its principles still apply today. What do organizations, such as those in the publishing industry, need to do to ensure survival, readership, and jobs for their people and provide a service to their communities? The publishing industry is at a…
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5 Stages to Empowering Your People and Successfully Implementing Change
August 2013 Stop for a moment and ask yourself: What significant changes are you and your team facing this season – perhaps a company or department merger, leader or employee development, or a new marketing approach? You probably have all the means – the site, the people, resources, even the blueprints for change –…
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