Lessons in connection from working in Saudi Arabia
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Un-Leadership lessons from a lip-sync street rerformance. An artistic, collaborative experience in 7 songs.
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How to assess the effectiveness of culture change efforts? Lessons from a field experience in a large-scale transformation.
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With Covid-19, a giant wave of uncertainty swept the world. The life of billions of people, including mine, changed in just a few weeks. Good leadership has never been so needed and so difficult. It’s too early to say what’s coming next, but I find it helpful to share observations and connect perspectives. What are yours?
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Is shop floor the blind spot of leadership? I asked my colleague Bill Murray how he and his team managed to achieve exceptional results on the manufacturing shop floor.
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"...at the very intersection between technology and human beings": Social Technologies in Business, a book by Isabel de Clerq and 14 co-authors including yours truly, makes a strong call for individual and organizational transformation through social technologies. Here's a bit about my social journey. What's yours?
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At Sanofi Pasteur, employees contribute their quality improvement ideas using Yammer. Read how much time and money the company is saving as it produces more life-saving vaccines. A customer success story published by Microsoft.
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Volunteers decide by themselves. They can say no. That’s why “volunteer” is a rarity in the corporate world, that loves nothing more than orderly management of resources. Yet, they bring invaluable energy and ideas... provided organizations learn to mobilize and leverage volunteers. Here is an example, taken from an on-going movement for quality improvement. Based on Kotter's 8-Step for leading change, it is about enabling massive volunteerism to help the organization improve.
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Business, organization and culture change are hot topics in the corporate world today. However, they often remain conceptual thinking: implementation is seen as difficult. Where to start? The trigger can be as simple as a meeting. But not the usual one. Here’s an example of how a single, different type of meeting can kick off a new collaborative culture.
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What makes you love doing something? What keeps you doing it over time, tirelessly? In our ever more rapidly changing world, permanence of emotions is a mystery. For the last 12 years, I have woken up early, every end of the week, to go rowing – with joy. It’s about passion, and togetherness. What if work could be like this?
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Social is the new normal in business and organizations. It requires individuals to adopt new behaviors related to networking, collaboration, agility etc.
But is everyone “wired” for social collaboration, i.e. equipped with the relevant skills and mindset?
How much are you ready for new ways of working? Take the test.
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