December 11, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Too bad you can’t buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.” Jack Handy Sometimes we just have to blow off steam to deal with work and life challenges. Surprisingly, only about 30 percent of individuals experiencing severe life trauma and pain experience post traumatic [...]
December 2, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” Sophocles ”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” Oprah [...]
November 30, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Management? It’s Not What You Think! Competency: leadership, visionary leadership Who benefits: anyone in management or aspiring to management Consultant Usage: organizational consultants, executive coaches What’s it about? Are you up for a most unconventional book about management? Professor and Organizational Development Swami Henry Mitzeberg and colleagues have put [...]
November 20, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” George Carlin To stimulate research on the topic of poor leadership, Robert Hogan in 1990 suggested that the base rate [...]
November 18, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: Non-techie quote: Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T.S. Elliot Techie quote: 640K ought to be enough for anybody. – Bill Gates, 1981 Humor Break: Today we bring you [...]
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November 9, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Corporate Responsibility and a Little Ethics Too Competency: leadership, financial leadership, visionary leadership Who benefits: senior managers Consultant Usage: senior organizational development consultants, executive coaches What’s it about? Every once in a while I like to step back and look at the big picture in the world of business. [...]
November 6, 2011 by Ken Nowack
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. In the latest APA Stress in America survey, 69% of employees are satisfied with their employer [...]
October 23, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!” George Carlin Most vendors use average scores of raters in their summary reports for 360-degree feedback assessments. For example it’s not uncommon for vendors to show a table summarizing the “most frequent” and “least frequent” behaviors perceived by [...]
October 16, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF “HOLDING” In a series of studies by Angela Duckworth and colleagues, individuals demonstrating “grit” were more likely to be successful in both academic and job related measures of performance and success1. The researchers defined and [...]
October 9, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs I remember the very first personal computer I purchased in the early 1980s with a buddy of mine at an IBM retail store in Beverly Hills, CA. It was an IBM XT PC with an internal 10MB [...]
October 2, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“First get your facts; then you distort them at your leisure” Mark Twain How do you know if your coaching intervention was successful? You can always use the “smiley face” approach and just ask for client reactions. Want an improved way to measure client reaction to evaluate your coaching intervention? The “post-then-pre” method of self-report [...]
September 18, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.” Henry Boyle In earlier Blogs I have written about the “pro-social peptide” oxytocin and how it seems to enhance trust and trustworthiness between individuals and teams. Unfortunately, oxytocin can’t easily be increased artificially but experimentally when it is given to people, [...]
September 11, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein As we look back at the anniversary of 9/11, we should acknowledge the bravery of those who were involved in helping, supporting and assisting those who perished and [...]
September 7, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Customers Control the Economy – And You Damn Well Better Get Used to It Competencies: customer service, sales management Who benefits: middle and senior management Consultant Usage: excellent resource for organizational consulting on business practices, sales management, customer service and some financial planning What’s it about? Somehow when the [...]
September 4, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” Aaron Levenstein Another edition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. Hooray for U.S. work ethics! According to he Center for American progress in 2010, 86 [...]