by Carol Sanford | Feb 6, 2010 | Business Development
The quality and the potential of a business depends on its people. It isn’t surprising that smart businesses invest a lot in growing people. Unfortunately, most of those investments are costly and ineffective. Although the approaches used are based on sound reasoning...
by Carol Sanford | Jan 31, 2010 | Business Development
Motivation is a subject on which I have spoken, published and consulted for 3 decades. Intrinsic Motivation that is and why Extrinsic motivation is so limiting and damaging to the very things a company holds most dear–especially if it is pursuing corporate...
by Carol Sanford | Jan 13, 2010 | Business Development
Checklists and Systemic Frameworks are both important approaches to guiding human activity. But they are not interchangeable. Atul Gawande’s new wonderful book, Checklist Manifesto, does not make that clear. There is a real chance, that because of the book’s success...
by Carol Sanford | Dec 25, 2009 | Business Development
Many leaders going to Copenhagen conference came to Beirut two weeks before to start the talks. UN Foundation Senior Fellow, Dr. Mohamen Al-Ashry spoke on a panel with me. He was very hopeful at the time. Five parts of my talk on Carbon and then Moving from...
by Carol Sanford | Oct 31, 2009 | Business Development
I have written and taught for years seeking to stop the “machine” started by 360 degree feedback and building of self-esteem guru Nathaniel Braden. It should be enough to know that it was originated by the German Military. They first began gathering feedback from...