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Jocks vs. Nerds
Read more: Jocks vs. Nerds“There’s this idea of the jocks vs. nerds thing. That sort of ended when the nerds won decisively. We now live in this era where your big summer tentpole movies can be hobbits and minor Marvel Comics superheroes and boy wizards. If you had told me when I was in junior high there would be…
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Leading Practices versus Best Practices
Lexy Martin tweeted a link a few months back around using the term “leading practices” and banishing the term “best practices” from our vocabularies. I’ve been trying to use the words leading practices for about 4 years now, although I admit I comply irregularly. I first learned it from a consulting partner whose name I…
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Users First, Company Second
I feel like I always talk about change management and adoption. When implementing a new system, I can definitely say that over the last few years I’ve seen a marked improvement in the diligence of internal implementation project managers in stressing the importance of behavioral change and end user adoption. It is honestly so easy…
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Process Excellence – Push it forward
What defines process excellence? There are probably (at least) two parts of the equation. Efficiency is the most obvious, as people reengineer processes to make them faster and cheaper. The second part is equally important though, and achieving high quality must also be achieved or the efficiency is meaningless. When we talk about high quality…
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Great Individual Contributors <> Great Leaders
I hate taking things from the sports world because other than the occasional job, riding my bike more than I should and watching the Boston Celtics in the post-season, I really don’t follow sports. Fact is, I usually don’t even realize it’s Superbowl Sunday until the game is half over. But being a pseudo Celtics…
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Consulting Models
I was actually asked by a client recently to increase the scope of my project – or at least the staffing model we were using. There are a more than a few consulting models, but I think it generally boils down to a couple of easy examples. There are differences in philosophy I suppose, and…
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Defining Mobility
Talent is actually pretty tricky. We seem not only to have problems defining talent and talent application components, but we seem to not know what some of those components even are. I’m no making sense yet? As anyone what are the components of a talent suite and you’ll get different answers – even though we’ve…
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The Shift to Engagement
I was reading a post on 2010 (originally attributed to Joyce Gioia, but without a link). ((Quick note to my fellow bloggers, Even though I don’t always link, I do almost always footnote. It’s a pain, but we live in an age where viral communications threaten the attribution of thought generation and innovative thinking. People…