Not getting the effective teaming you need to succeed? It could be a problem with your learning design. Several years ago, I was part of a faculty at an esteemed professional services firm that taught core consulting skills to new hires who had been recruited right...
Go to any office in America and you will probably hear about the childish behavior of some co-workers. Managers will express frustration that their direct reports are acting like children. The implication is that acting like a child is a problem because a child...
Managing cross-cultural diversity in teams means finding a common goal. In this article, I discuss my personal experience with dance and what it can teach us about diversity in the workplace. In preparation for my son Adam’s wedding, my wife Rose and I are taking...
Acclaimed author David Foster Wallace’s essay, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, is widely regarded as one of the most famous of its kind. Wallace’s musings on a life well lived opens with a parable...
“We should be careful to get out of an experience the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one...
