There’s a myth in organizations that the org chart can hold the total of the work that the organization performs. It’s a persistent myth and it’s lack of truth seems to have no effect on its power. Why? My conclusion is that the myth is self-sealing, in the sense that the lack of value in […]
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I don’t know if it is a blessing or a curse that I think of abstract concepts as pictures and videos. Today, while discussing the differences between seeking excellence and preventing failure, a picture filled with hot air balloons sprung to mind and then my imagination pushed play. Our scene opens to a beautiful balloon
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Perhaps I’ve been visiting Gaping Void too often, but I’ve caught a minor cartooning bug. My cartoons aren’t meeting my expectations and yet they are letting out a bit of pent up picture drawing (albeit with Microsoft Office drawing tools) energy. Enjoy tonight’s cartoon and please tune in on Halloween for a long-planned introduction of
Lately I’ve become almost militant in my opposition to surveys. “Why such a strong anti-survey stance?” you ask. (Thank you for asking by the way.) Because too often I see people trying to find the picture of reality within the survey, but then never doing anything with the reality they find. Huh? Let me explain
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Wordle.net is a great site that allows you to use any text or url to create a word pictures to sense the not-so-hidden patterns in your language. You can use this to reveal the common words your organization relies on to carry your essential messages. I built 45 of these today for another project and
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During a class on Friday I was reminded of a very important point: Your team needs a real purpose, something big worth accomplishing that you can only do together. Without a purpose, team’s don’t necessarily dissolve. Usually they do something far worse: they continue meeting but their goal (unstated, of course) is their own comfort.
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