One of the biggest time-wasters in organizations today is meetings. There are so many of them, that it can take an army of personal assistants to make sure that everyone arrives at the right place, and at the right time. To say that there numerous books available about meetings would be an understatement. At present, […]
If you have a science background, then you’re probably familiar with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Like nearly everything scientific, it’s defined in terms that only those who live in that world understand easily. For laymen, it perhaps can best be understood as the tendency for just about everything to change from order to chaos. […]
Nearly three out of four Americans say that they’re bored at work.* They feel that their knowledge, skills and abilities aren’t being used, and that their companies don’t care. To give you an idea of the size of the problem, imagine that instead of boredom, they were all too sick to even show up. The streets […]
Leadership is probably the most discussed and least understood topic in organizations. The word itself yields more than two billion returns on Google. That alone should give you some idea, not only of its popularity, but also the wide range of opinions that surround it. So at the risk of adding to the billions of […]
In 1959, Frederick Herzberg published his now famous two-factor theory of motivation. It articulated two categories of activities that occurred in organizations, and which defined what compelled people to be productive. To this day, it continues to surprise organizations, managers, and scholars. The factors were named hygienic and non-hygienic. Hygienic factors were those things that […]
Talk to any transformation leader long enough, and the same story comes out. The project had a sponsor on paper. The kickoff deck named one. The steering committee charter assigned one. But somewhere between launch and landing, no one was actually steering the ship. The team made its hard calls in a vacuum, hit organizational […]
Have you ever been blindsided by a colleague’s words or actions? Or maybe been part of a team that spent more time complaining about others in the business rather than collaborating and solving the business decision at hand? If you have answered “yes” to either or both questions then you are probably not in an […]
In corporate circles, there’s a phenomenon known as the last mile. It was first identified in the telecommunications industry, and the problem went something like this: how do you get a signal to the end of the line that’s as strong as it was at the beginning? It’s a familiar issue with internet connections today. […]
Jesse Jacoby
