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113: Principles for Work Design Infrastructure
Podcast Show Notes #113 Why Holacracy is not new and not an improvement. How would we know what is? Carol’s Lesson: Examine the various ways that Holacracy is not different from traditional hierarchical businesses. Critiques of Holacracy from Harvard Business...
112 Holacracy
Podcast Show Notes: #112 Holacracy Evaluation-Systems and Structures Examined Carol’s Lesson: Examine the recent search for new work designs (particularly Holacracy) that have been tried by practitioners in an effort to get different results particularly for workers....
111: History of Work Design
Podcast Show Notes: #111 History of Work Design- How we got to where we are with the Way We Work Carol’s Lesson: Explore designs of an practices in business, understand from where they are sourced, as well as their effects. Frederick Winslow...
107: Produce Enlightened Innovation Using Conflict
Response to HBR Article:: How to Handle a Disagreement on Your Team by Jeanne Brett & Stephen B Goldberg. Record: Nov 19, 2017. Uploads: Nov 30 Creating a Culture and Capability of External Considering There are four levels of being considerate: Kindness,...
106: Design your organization to use Change Management and Leadership to pursue enlightened innovation, not targeted amelioration
Do you Introduce Change for Innovation or Amelioration? HBR Article: Change Management and Leadership Development Have to Mesh by Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn. JANUARY 07, 2016. Record: Nov 19, 2017 Podcast Script outline: Setting the Stage: Does your change...
105: Why Leadership Development Fails
Executive Summary: In spite of $365B a year spent globally on leadership training, follow up studies show that it does not have a lasting effect on organizational results. Within one year of completion, surveys indicate that organizational effectiveness, the intended...
104: Mindfulness at Work
Mediation and mindfulness have become a popular training subject in Silicon Valley high tech companies. It is a very, very useful practice for us as humans. I would go so far as to say, we cannot fully live out our humanness without the capability to exercise...
103: Why Psychological Safety is the Wrong Goal for Business. And bad for Democracy!
There has been an idea arising in print media and on-air conversations with pundits about the idea of creating safe work and learning places to create psychological safety. A physically safe space is imperative. As is a sexual harassment-free workplace by superiors...
102: The Hazard of Personality Typologies to Business and Humanity
Detoxing Myths of Modern Management: Can human beings be reliably categorized into types for management, learning and teaming purposes? Business Second Opinion Media has as it’s purpose detoxing modern business practices, which have arisen over a thousand years of...
101: Build, Don’t Buy, Talent
This week’s podcast and blog are about the insane competition for talent, attracting and retaining talent and why most businesses go about this pursuit, to get the best people, in the wrong way. If you do leadership searches your company will pay about 1/3 of the cost...