leadership
Mentoring + Technology Improves Performance During Supply Chain Transformation
Digital transformation efforts are starting – and largely failing – across multiple industries, including logistics and supply chains. To be successful at digital transformation, companies must overcome a talent gap between the old ways and the new methods being driven by the advancing technology. In my experience in working with companies and leading workshops on…
Read MoreWill adopting a growth mindset supercharge your company’s performance culture?
I was intrigued by one of Jeff Pfeffer’s latest blog posts, “What If You Couldn’t Easily Fire People?” because of the premise that his post was based on. His premise is that one of the reasons there is such low employee engagement is that “at will” firing creates incentives for people to allocate less time…
Read MoreHow is your organization approaching diversity?
I recently read an interesting article in Time Magazine entitled, “Diversity has become a booming business. So where are the results?” The gist of the article is that many organizations have created diversity positions and functions in their organizations and/or promoted people responsible for diversity. These changes are meant to promote organizational diversity in response…
Read MoreDid you know that financial incentives don’t really motivate employees?
As many of you know, I have often written about the limitations of financial incentives designed to motivate employees. In particular, I cite the work of Dan Pink in Drive about how people need a minimum of financial support to be motivated, but then three other factors kick in including purpose, mastery, and autonomy. With…
Read MoreLearning doesn’t have to be “hard”
It is amazing to me how traditional but very out-of-date paradigms get in the way of progress. At Cerebyte, we have been involved with multiple organizations lately where highly successful transformational leadership pilot tests did not lead to full programs because leadership did not believe that the changes they had seen as a result of…
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