My Book’s Present Back Cover Working Draft!
I have edited my book’s back cover draft to now this. Is my message clear and enticing? What is missing? Feedback welcome! ~Norman Create a high-performance company with less guess-work! You’ve...
View ArticleIs Loyalty Important to Culture?
I thank TerriLyn Reed of the Hummel Insurance Agency in Tallmadge, OH, for sharing this link with me. Here I comment on Dharmesh Shah’s July 23rd, 2013 LinkedIn post titled “7 Qualities Of A Truly...
View ArticleMy Praise for (and links to) THE CULTURE ADVANTAGE by Tim Kuppler
My Recommendation of (and link to) THE CULTURE ADVANTAGE (2013) by Tim Kuppler. To begin, I must admit to some initial personal skepticism. Yet another book on business culture that describes as its...
View ArticleTrue & Lasting Success Today Requires Individual AND Group Performance. Ideas...
“True and lasting success” in our globalizing world can constructively be considered in terms of individuals’ satisfactions as members of groups, little and big, who are successfully making...
View ArticleTrue & Lasting Success Today Requires Individual AND Group Performance. Ideas...
Today it is widely understood that EVERY business possesses a company “culture.” < That culture is passed on to new employees. < It is a by-product of all actions by leadership and all other...
View ArticleTwo June Workshops on Building a High Performance Organization
Two Denison Consulting Certification Workshops Workshop on Culture Change & Leadership Development The Denison Consulting Certification Workshop is a comprehensive two-day program that prepares...
View ArticleAdditional Information and Skills Utilized by Leadership Today
Leaders of today’s and tomorrow’s most effective businesses, as always, will continue to focus on cost-effective uses of technologies and processes. And that’s not all. < Top performing leaders...
View ArticleSafety is a culture issue.
From Chernobyl to the Challenger to Deep Water Horizon, major incident investigations consistently point to culture as a key root cause. – Formal safety mechanisms dictate what people should do whereas...
View ArticleOwnership + Engagement = Organizational Alchemy
“Thinking like an owner” is structural as well as attitudinal/behavioral. The vast majority of private entrepreneurial companies in North America and elsewhere are closely held. This means that only...
View ArticleThe Importance of School Leadership for School Performance and Student Success
Wow! This past week I (Dr. J) discovered The Wallace Foundation’s January 2013 Wallace Perspective, < “the first of a series of reports looking at school leadership and how it is best developed and...
View Article“Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart” in Our Public Schools Requires...
Schools and school systems are scrambling to integrate social and emotional learning (“SEL”) into their curriculum, this is in addition to core academics — for many good reasons. < In my own...
View ArticleHuman Synergistics International® and Performance Improvement
I recently completed my OCI®–OEI® Accreditation through Human Synergistics International®. < Human Synergistics International has been a true pioneer in quantifying organization development and...
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