Aligning Organizational and Individual Values: A Guide for Business Leaders, Part 1 Imagine you’re the founder or the CEO of a growing business. You’ve heard about the importance of company values, so you gather your team for a brainstorming session. After a few hours and several pizzas, you emerge with a list of inspiring words: […]
Category: human values
A Hidden Benefit of 360-Degree Reviews
Ever wondered if there’s more to 360-degree reviews than meets the eye? In this article, we’ll uncover yet another A360 secret that could transform your team’s dynamics. We’ll explore real-life examples and offer practical insights that may change the way you view feedback and leadership development. In Part 1, I outlined the benefits of 360-degree […]
UVALDE, BOEING, COJONES, and Shared Values
It took the US JD 604 days to acknowledge the glaring truth: the police response to the May 24, 2022, deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting was “a failure that should not have happened.” Well, duh!.. One year, seven months, and 25 days, and nearly 600 pages later, the report highlights “a sweeping array of […]
Dispelling the Myth: Flat Hierarchies and the Pursuit of Genuine Diversity
Hierarchies play a crucial role in facilitating efficient information exchange within organizations. When teams are congruent, organizations can flatten their hierarchies, boost creativity and performance, and maintain genuine diversity.
What Do Elon Musk and Bill Gates Have in Common?
GPT and Q7 offer an unexpected answer to this question. I asked ChatGPT to help me build Elon Musk’s values profile, using my Q7 questionnaire, and then compared it to the profile calculated earlier using crowdsourced responses. I was pleasantly surprised that the two profiles matched up to 95%! Getting almost identical results with a […]
Google-Boggle
In the knowledge economy, large bloated organizations are not sustainable. Google is just one of them.
Why Do Projects Succeed?
Now that we know Why Projects Fail, let’s talk about the practical steps and behaviors Project Manager must adopt in order to deliver a project successfully. The three root causes of project success are: LEAN CEO In the knowledge economy, with continuously growing competition, accelerating product lifecycles, and shrinking lifespan of businesses, managing by project […]
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: a Must-Have Tool in the Knowledge Economy
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs may be less popular than the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) – but it is much more meaningful and powerful as a performance enhancement instrument.
REBALANCING: A Message from Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian was sending us a message: Humans, it’s time to put your act together. It’s time to REBALANCE.
Applying Maslow’s Theory Today
Abraham Maslow’s Theory of human motivation is like Isaac Newton’s laws of motion: neither of them has an expiration date. New theories often come to the fore, but after a while, it becomes obvious that they are nothing more than derivatives and only confirm the original idea. With the shooting epidemic sweeping the US, everyone […]