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Building Organizational Muscle

Kates Kesler

Both muscles in the body and capabilities in the organization: Turn energy into motion using positive tension. The challenge is to build the necessary components to ensure successful organizational development through several cycles to ensure the muscle is conditioned and developed to deliver.

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Q&A with Michael Hornsby

Brimstone Consulting

Pretty soon the teambuilding took me around the world delivering for a leading international energy company. It is a journey full of talented leaders, gifted colleagues, and good meals after a good day. I facilitated teambuilding activities during the day and taught myself QuickBooks at night. Smart people, great team…and global.

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Putting a Price on People Problems at Work

Harvard Business

Managers typically waste massive amounts of money, time, energy, and resources in order to fix these issues. They become vulnerable to what we call spending traps —where spending, whether it’s through money or time, energy, and other resources, comes to substitute for the real work of leading, managing, and executing.

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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. The result is that people are working not only during the workday, but also in the mornings, nights, and weekends ; “e ternal Wednesday.” . Dr. Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg points to the three phases of crisis : emergency, regression, and recovery.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. In practice, this mean setting up what I call “living laboratory” leadership development. But in experience, and novel experience in particular, our intentional mind can be more engaged as we make conscious decisions about our behavior.