Innovation is seldom a light bulb moment of genius. Usually, it is a collaborative process of sharing ideas.
Creating a Psychological Safe Workforce
Category: Organizational Leadership
The Number One Difference Between High and Average Organizational Performance
How an innovating design to organizational leadership turned a failing elementary school to one of the highest performing schools and the only school to close the achievement gap within a district of 25,000 students.
Billionaire Salesforce founder: ‘Capitalism as we know it is dead.’
Replacing shareholder capitalism with stakeholder capitalism will require new systems of leadership designed to implement new corporate values.
Innovations in Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Systems, Organizational Leadership, Systems Thinking
Leadership: It’s A System, Not a Person
We worship at the altar of personally driven leadership. My last Amazon search listed 197,000 books on leadership, virtually everyone approaching leadership as the characteristics of the individual. Annually, we spend approximately $40Billion in leadership development. Yet there is not a shred of evidence there is any measurable organizational impact. Training is disconnected from organizational…
Why Lean Does Not Work – It’s the System!
I had been invited to facilitate a lean workshop with a large state agency. The division had been hammered during the recession with massive layoffs, forced retirements, huge loss of institutional knowledge but with little reduction in workload. So, for four days I met with 18 front line managers and workers to document their processes,…
Why the US Military is the Best at Leadership Development
the US Military is widely recognized as the absolute best in developing leaders. In this post, I relate an interview with a 4-star general as he explained to me how the US Army trains and develops leaders.