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Organizations don’t change, people change

Organization Behavior July 30, 2010

Organizations are, quite simply, made up of social interactions: groups of people. Organizations will not change if people do not change. There is no such thing as organization change, they don’t change, people change. All change: transformation, business process reengineering, technology implementation, mergers & acquisitions, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, strategic planning or, if you [...]

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Organization development is business growth

Organization Behavior July 19, 2010

Organization development has yet to earn a role in all organizations. Only the most progressive companies even have an organization development role, staff, department, or group. The challenge to organization development success is that it is hard to find a linear trajectory for success. Organization development may have clear goals, but the reality, there is rarely [...]

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Media’s two tribes – Rupert Murdoch’s Wall

Odds & Sods July 16, 2010

In a follow up to July 12th’s post Media’s two tribes – charging for content Atlantic Monthly’s James Fallows reports The Times of London has placed their bet you will love their headlines so much you will pay for the opportunity to read the article. Click on any link within The Times and you are [...]

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Media’s two tribes – charging for content

Marketing July 12, 2010

The lines are drawn: charge for content, give content for free. In Media’s two tribes The Economist breaks down the thought of charging for premium content over giving content away. In this article from The Economist, read about what 2 UK media outlets weigh in their chosen strategy as well a look at some of the [...]

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The maven or the laggard – Clive Thompson’s view

Marketing July 3, 2010

Those early market adopters, the techno-weenies that stood in line for the iPhone 4, they represent only about 13.5% of the potential market. It seems many consumer and technology products look for the big Apple splash as a sign of cool, hip, and success. These early adopters are people who play on the what is [...]

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Low risk, low return human resources

Talent Management June 11, 2010

My 11-odd-years in business and talent management consulting [the other 9 in marketing] have shown a few disturbing trends that I see from most poorly-run companies. These type of organizations, across all industries, ascribe to, what they believe is a low risk strategy, but in reality it is a low return strategy for human resources: [...]

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Isn’t it enough that I told them?

Talent Management May 24, 2010

Does your organization communicate or inform. Does your leader invite conversation at the table? Does your leader offer an environment of dialogue? If the answer is no, how does that affect organization motivation throughout all levels? Do your project leaders and project sponsors sit around the table and audit the failed implementations with comments like [...]

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Talent score report brought to you by your credit agency

Talent Management May 23, 2010

How’s your credit score? Perhaps I could ask another way, how accurate is your credit score? Perhaps another way, how accurate is your credit score in assessing your talent, management, or leadership potential? According to Equifax, their internal assessments “directly aligns human resources to overall organization goals” and you can read about it here: Talent [...]

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John Siemiatkoski, Development Manager at ALS Association, Massachusetts Chapter

Impact May 21, 2010

“The Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike) has promoted a bicycle-friendly environment and encourages bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation since 1979. Since I became President of MassBike, I have sought ways to develop the organization’s structure, capacity and effectiveness, so that we can truly achieve our mission. “Toby was recommended to me to help MassBike build [...]

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Jane Stachowiak, Director, Student Wellness & Health Promotion-LiveWell, Berklee College of Music

Impact May 20, 2010

Working with Toby Elwin in 2009 I was fortunate to reverse the role of mentor/mentee. The mentor (me) received great advice and help from someone I have been mentoring over the past two decades. Toby Elwin played a major role at Berklee College of Music in transforming its student 8-page print newspaper into an electronic [...]

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All hail the solution to the micromanager

Organization Behavior May 19, 2010

How to handle the micromanager? Raise your hand if you love working for a micromanager? Are you a micromanager, you can raise your hand if you are, no one else knows. Micromanagers grind work to a halt. If there is no confidence in work getting done, the fish rots from the head down: the management [...]

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The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy

Talent Management April 21, 2010

There is little doubt each National Football League (NFL) team spends an extraordinary amount of resources preparing to draft their number 1 pick. An NFL team’s number one pick is intended to be the team’s future star and this year the NFL draft has changed their format to glorify the first round draft even more. [...]

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Human capital assessments – the symptom or the disease

Organization Behavior April 14, 2010

The drive to evaluate operations and to contain costs is mistakenly applied as an operational issue across the board. Too often human capital assessments are lumped into the systems theory world of process and become a technical asset for management’s diagnostic view for cuts. The result becomes an assessment or evaluation process that is really [...]

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Tips to turn your blog into a pod(cast) into revenue

Marketing April 7, 2010

Tired of trying to reach a critical mass with your blogs? Tired of sitting in front of the blank compute screen trying to channel your Ernest Hemingway? What about podcasting? Podcasting is one great alternative to reach millions. “Podcasting?” You say? ”To reach more people than my written blog?” You say? It is true. And [...]

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Change management bottom up or top down

Organization Behavior April 4, 2010

Classic change theory: leadership drives change; leadership must be committed for change to work. Seems to make sense, but in reality leadership is irrelevant. The organization’s ability to change is dictated by the operational units and employees, not leadership. The reality: culture eats strategy for lunch. Your workers dictate change and strategy. Leadership doesn’t drive [...]

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Human capital portfolio management and simple math

Portfolio Planning March 23, 2010

A venture’s viability really comes down to a bet on a team to deliver. It is the interpersonal process where venture performance is most impacted. Modern portfolio theory allows investors to maximize return and minimize risk. The goal is to estimate both the expected risks and returns, as measured statistically, as an accumulation of investments. Why [...]

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Why your business strategy is a project portfolio

Portfolio Planning January 13, 2010

It starts with an executive need: a new market evaluation; improve operating margins; a game-changing technology; your competition is eating your lunch. Whatever the reason, a project is how an organization translates an executive strategy. The ability to scope and deliver a project is a competitive advantage. The best organizations realize project management capability as [...]

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8 steps to better decision making in 2010

Talent Management December 31, 2009

It starts with an executive need: a new market evaluation; improve operating margins; a game-changing technology; your competition is eating your lunch. Whatever the reason, a project is how an organization translates an executive strategy. The ability to scope and deliver a project is a competitive advantage. The best organizations realize project management capability as [...]

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Competing values drives your organization out of business

Talent Management December 23, 2009

Cultures are characterized by how things are done around here. Culture is sometimes adopted from the founder, sometimes developed consciously by teams who try to improve performance, and sometimes culture is formed in reaction to a lack of leadership or need for survival. Culture emerges from collective: behavior, values, norms, assumptions, expectations, and process When [...]

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CSI Music Industry, Part 1: The Crime Scene

Portfolio Planning December 4, 2009

First in a series of investigations into the death of the music industry record business. Background: I went to Berklee College of Music as a conducting and arranging major. I switched my major to music business mid-way when I discovered how lawyers and accountants make the major decisions about the music I heard. I wanted [...]

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3 reasons for failure: change, participation, and risk

Portfolio Planning November 1, 2009

An organization builds a culture of success when it can take a strategy, identify and prioritize the most important projects within the strategy, and consistently deliver projects on time, on budget, and within identified quality standards. Charting success is not easy. 80% of all projects fail for three main reasons. 1. 80% of projects fail [...]

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