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How to Motivate When Pay Increases are Small

No or low pay increases? Here's how to keep employee motivation alive.READ MORE

How to Build Stronger Accountability

Accountability is where the rubber hits the road in strategy execution. Here's how to strengthen it.READ MORE

Got Insights?

This week, I had the opportunity to present at a global summit, in Vancouver, Canada. The event was chaired by Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor of Fortune and included great speakers such as Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics and ...READ MORE

Real-TimeExecutionWave (TM) - A New Decision-Making Framework

A Note to Our Readers:  I received enormous response and literally hundreds of The Living Organization (R) model white paper downloads from my last Fast Company posting, Strategic Planning is Dead - Long Live Strategy ...READ MORE

Here's What Happens When You Try to Stuff 10 Pounds into a 5 Pound Sack

When to Stop Holding Their Feet to the FireREAD MORE

Why Happy Employees Isn't a Good Objective

Don’t try to make employees happy or satisfied.Here's what you should do instead.READ MORE

Accountability and Responsibility

Accountability and responsibility -- both are important, but they are NOT the same thing.AccountabilityAn accountability is an end result.  Being accountable is being answerable for a result.For example, a primary ...READ MORE

When Execution is More Important than Strategy

In a fast-changing environment, aligning your organization to execute, and motivating your people can be more important than strategy.READ MORE

Culture of Performance on Radio this Wednesday!

If developing a culture of performance is one of your objectives for 2010, you are in luck! We are making it increasingly easy for you, your team and colleagues to access the content you need to achieve your goal.This Wednesday, we ...READ MORE

Lego Group's Culture of Performance @ the National Retail Federation Big Show!

The recent economic crisis has reminded business leaders of "the basics" of business performance; developing a great strategy is not enough. All participants need to be able to execute the strategy and the organization needs to ...READ MORE

Business Intelligence 2020?

Happy New Year to all! By now, you probably have read all the 2010 predictions or even 2009 "best of" analyses! There are some great ones out there but....I haven't found much on BI 2020 horizon. So...looking back the last decade, and ...READ MORE

Improving Bottom-Line Results: Applying The Living Organization® Model

We often hear from our clients, colleagues, and online audience: “Your model really resonates with my experience of business and it seems to help explain that which is often hard to explain, but does it produce real ...READ MORE

Are Toyota and GE going through a cultural crisis?

I recently read Jim Collin's latest book "How the Mighty Fall". The book is an easy, useful and actionable read and I highly recommend it. Timing was brilliant on Jim Collins' part as many, over the last year, wondered how it was possible that such successful institutions could fail that way...especially after so many books had been published lauding the practices of these giants. READ MORE

Does your incentive system work?

I recently had the opportunity to talk with executives about the issues they experience with incentives implementation, and what we call in Drive Business Performance, the multiple "currencies" of performance.    We ...READ MORE

Are you the victim of "decisional set-up"?

In a recent Harvard Executive course I took, our decision making class instructor said - "it's not the information you HAVE that clouds your decision making, it's the information you DO NOT have".What a brilliant way to summarize the ...READ MORE

Does your organization have too much data, too little of the right one or both?

Great WSJ article on the issue of information management and decision making.   Although the article is specific to the scientific community, the same issues exist in the business world (see article @  ...READ MORE

Is Green the new Red?

In a recent conversation on KPI management, I came up with, what I hope, could be a catchy soundbite: “is your green the new red?”  The idea behind the sound bite is that, while many organizations focus on the red KPIs on ...READ MORE

What Is Strategy Acceleration and How Can It Help My Organization?

Do you know what strategy acceleration can do for your organization? Do you know what it really is or how it can directly impact your strategic success? Find out here. READ MORE