April 29, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: The Back Of The Napkin Competencies: strategic problem analysis, driving change, vision/goal setting, oral presentation Who benefits: entrepreneurs, planners, sales and marketing professionals at any level, internal and external organizational consultants, those who make oral presentations Consultant Usage: highly recommended for organizational consultants, important skill for trainers at all [...]
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April 26, 2009 by Ken Nowack
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.” Groucho Marx A UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders in 2008 found that only 13 of California’s 400 largest public companies have a woman CEO and women hold only 10.9% of board seats and executive positions [...]
April 22, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average Competencies: self-development (primary); decision making and judgment (secondary) Who benefits: anyone who finds the topic of interest Consultant Usage: good background material for coaches; could be [...]
April 19, 2009 by Ken Nowack
“If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.” Thomas Szasz In previous blogs I’ve mused a bit about the relatively high base rate of leadership incompetence (estimated to be 50%) and the challenge of predicting future leadership behavior. Maybe praying for leaders can’t hurt–or can it? I’ve become a [...]
April 15, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: more decision making books and articles Competencies:decision making, judgment, self-development Who benefits: anyone seeking to improve their judgments and/or decision making abilities Consultant Usage: significant listings of current reference material on the comptencies of decision making and judgment What’s it about? I want to thank Time Magazine for doing most [...]
April 12, 2009 by Ken Nowack
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Unknown Remember this old saying from childhood? No doubt someone was saying something to you that could have been emotionally hurtful. Well, it seems this old saying really doesn’t have any scientific merit at all. In fact, recent research suggests that indeed [...]
April 10, 2009 by David Jamieson
As consulting has expanded and morphed into so many different types of services being delivered under the same banner, it begins to dilute any meaning in the banner. What is consulting? To some it’s providing expertise or facilitating some process. For others it’s providing extra workers to staff a project or taking over a certain [...]
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April 8, 2009 by Bill Bradley
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: decisions, decisions, decisions Competency: decision-making Who benefits: those interested in how each of us makes a decision Consultant Usage: background material for coaching the decision-making competency What’s it about: I love the numbers game “Sudoku”. I play [...]
April 5, 2009 by Ken Nowack
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” John Lennon Another edition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. “Most of the investment in organizational training and development is wasted because most of the knowledge and skills gained (well over 80% by some [...]
April 1, 2009 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER Title: book titles from Hell Competency: sense of humor Who benefits: those who need a laugh Consultant Usage: entertain your friends What’s it about? Being as this is the time honored day of acknowledging Fools, I thought a day of wacky book titles might be in order! Writing for this [...]
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