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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. The executives, who huddled behind closed doors in the corner office, anticipated the typical buzz of energy with the promise of free pizza. Picture a fall Friday morning in a downtown office. Around 10:30 a.m., Others simply disengaged.

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The Power of Mindfulness

Brimstone Consulting

The costs to our productivity and our personal wellbeing of this involuntary attention are enormous. All distractions disappear, and we feel a sense of focus, energy, and aliveness. He is a former corporate executive with extensive background and experience as an organizational development specialist and executive coach.

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Building Organizational Muscle

Kates Kesler

We often use the term “organizational muscle” as a way to bring the concept of “capabilities” to life. If execution of strategy is the goal, then the organization is a means to that end. Both muscles in the body and capabilities in the organization: Turn energy into motion using positive tension. It is a useful analogy.

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A Quiet(er) Mind

Brimstone Consulting

Even a few minutes of mindfulness practice daily allows the mind to rest, leaving us refreshed and able to lead with more energy, clarity, and focus. He is a former corporate executive with extensive background and experience as an organizational development specialist and executive coach. The Power of Mindfulness.

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Put an end to the “Eternal Wednesday” and the “New Normal”

Brimstone Consulting

In the emergency phase, there is energy and a sense of urgency and purpose. Collaboration and productivity increase as people instinctively pull together. In the regression phase, people are tired, they lose their sense of purpose, and they start to fight about the small stuff—productivity and engagement decline. Burned out.”

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A Definition and Implementation of Organizational Change - Free.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. A Definition and Implementation of Organizational Change By Jim Smith on May 27, 2010. First of all, my experience is that organizational development work is a very fragile enterprise. People run out of energy. Translate This.

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Achieving Your Business Dreams Online

Chad Barr

Some people are too quiet about their products and services,” says Chad Barr, author of “Million Dollar Web Presence,” (Entrepreneurs Press, 2012). In “Million Dollar Web Presence,” Barr provides success strategies and practical how-to approaches entrepreneurs can use to leverage the Web to achieve their business dreams online.