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Jon Stewart on Leadership, Intention and Creating Organizational Energy

24 May 2016

Over the past couple of weeks, clips from a video in which Jon Stewart effectively skewers Donald Trump for being a “man baby” made the social media rounds. It was part of a much longer conversation hosted by David Axelrod…

Does Your Organization Promote Negative Productivity? The Answer is Probably YES!

18 May 2016

Mark

Human Resource(fulness), Performance

An employee resigns from a department and isn’t replaced (not through any affirmative decision to reduce headcount – no one would take the job). Productivity in the department goes up. Another employee goes on maternity leave. Their direct supervisor decides…

How to Recover Up to $17 Billion in Productivity…

18 April 2016

Mark

Culture, Events, Human Resource(fulness), Performance

Okay, the headline applies to the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Southern Ontario, Canada, but I’ll bet the per capita numbers are probably about the same in your local area. A new report from CivicAction, “an independent and nimble…

In Today’s Complex World, Navigate for Effects

8 March 2016

Mark

Complexity, Culture, Human Resource(fulness), Leadership

Managing in the 20th century was complicated. I mean, really complicated. There was so much going on among customers and supply chains and plants and distribution centres and you-name-it that it was a challenge to keep track of it all.…

A Touch of Leadership Success

10 December 2015

Mark

Culture, Leadership, Tactility

Tactility is the new Vision My partner is a renowned and recognized expert in consumer insight. She tells me that the key to successful marketing is to understand the often unspoken need, want, or desire among consumers, irrespective of whether…

Deal with Humans? Deal with Resources? You need to understand the Connected Relationship Organization

26 November 2015

Mark

Everything else

What is Organization? A simple question—with a not-so-simple answer. Many answers boil down to this: a group of people who come together to accomplish a common purpose, often articulated as the organization’s “mission.” “Purpose,” it seems, is the organization’s driving…

Transforming an Organization, Even When that Organization is a Country

5 November 2015

Mark

Human Resource(fulness), Leadership, Transformation

As most of the world knows, Canada has a (hot) new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who was sworn in with his cabinet yesterday. Notable among his appointees to Her Majesty’s Privy Council (that is, ministers of cabinet), is the fact…

How to Win Baseball Games, that is, Transform Your Organization with One, Simple Idea

22 October 2015

Mark

Culture, Hiring, Human Resource(fulness), Intention, Leadership, Transformation, Valence Theory

The summary: The Blue Jays came back from 8 games behind in July to lead the American League East by 6 by the end of the regular season. How? The trigger seemed to coincide with acquiring two players – David…

Understanding One Distinction Virtually Guarantees Leadership Success

23 July 2015

Mark

Intention, Leadership, Tactility

Pssst… spoiler alert… it’s Effect vs Intent The title of this post ranks right up there with the most click-bait-y, Upworthy-ish headlines going. But, it turns out that this one distinction in the way you, as a leader, understand your…

Five Secrets of Effective and Enjoyable Leadership

27 May 2015

Mark

Appreciative practices, Culture, Intention, Leadership

“I realized that the more fun I had, the better I did.” So says actor Bill Murray in an interview posted on Business Insider. To be sure, for any of us in almost any profession, the more fun we can…