Most of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The base is physiological – breathing, food, water, sex, sleep…. The next level is safety and security – of employment, of health, of family… Implicit in this model is that each level BUILDS ON the other, it is not REPLACED BY the other. This “building […]
A Plea from Your Best Employees
Dear Senior Executive / CEO: We understand that you have tremendous pressures put on you. Too many meetings. High demand for face-time. Tremendous pressure for immediate results – often from very vocal stakeholders. And that’s just the stuff we know about. This is a plea from us to you – the executive. We have determined […]
Meaningful Flow Lab – Status Report August 1, 2018
Cross-posted to Medium. This is a call for feedback and an introduction to where I am headed with this lab. I feel like I’m taking a risk — showing my work in progress. That’s what labs are for, right? In the presentation, I’m covering: My why My desired future The existing tools, thinking, and technologies that […]
Toxic Cultures
“Love it, change it or leave it.” It is, fundamentally, the situation many of us find ourselves in within our workplaces. I’ve talked about it before. And all you have to do is look up “employee engagement” in Google to see what is happening. As Karen Kollenz-Qutard points out in her TedTalk – you have a […]
Lakota Sioux Buffalo Hunting: A Case Study in the Importance of Roles
Pictures from my trip to the Badlands National Park, South Dakota. The Plains Indian buffalo hunts provide an excellent example of clear scope, clear “why,” defined roles, and matching roles with skills. The scope of the Buffalo hunt – to get at least enough buffalo so that they could feed the tribe and provide raw materials […]
Drumlines: A Case Study in Merging Two Teams
Two teams. Two different cultures. Two spoken languages. One common experience. The Top Secret Drum Corps of Basel is a stand-alone drum corps in the military tradition (though this group is not affiliated with the Swiss military). The Blue Devils Percussion Line is part of the larger Blue Devils competitive marching band. If […]
Louisville Leopards: Another Model of Teamwork
– The Louisville Leopard – Grade 6 graduates. Please donate and support music education. The Louisville Leopard, in this video, provide another demonstration of teamwork. Working with, the environment you find yourself in. In this case, they have limited resources: 9 kids, the instruments you see on the stage, and 2 adults. Clear priorities. “We […]
Kilauea as a Case Study for Cross-Functional Teamwork
– Video by Tim O’Hara. This park was overtaken by lava on July 12, 2018 —————————- I’ve been watching the slow-moving disaster that is occurring in the Puna Region on the Big Island of Hawaii. As I’ve watched this drama evolve, I’ve been impressed by how everyone involved is trying to work with the environment […]
Video: An Example of Experiential Intent
(Transcript – edited to remove some of the verbal tics) I wanted to talk a little further about this notion of experiential intent. As I look at this experience and the decision making that went into my trip, you know, I had mentioned before that I did time calculations I could have gone to the […]
Video: Experience DURING Projects
(Transcript – minus the “so….” ) There’s another consideration when planning projects that I think gets neglected quite a bit and that’s the question of what experience do you want to have during the project? We get fixated on the destination, what will get fixed, and on why we want to do what we want […]
