Power is one of the most misunderstood – and often vilified – concepts in our society. This is the way Julie Battilana, Harvard professor of Organizational Behavior and Social Innovation, and Tiziana Casciaro, University of Toronto professor of Organizational Behavior, describe it in Power, for...
Becoming honest isn't always the easiest thing, but it's often the right thing and the best policy, especially at work. In Honest to Greatness: How Today's Greatest Leaders Use Brutal Honesty to Achieve Massive Success (2020), Peter Kozodoy, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and business coach, presents fresh...
I was introduced to a new term “dupe” when I was facilitating a leadership development workshop in 1998. In the hotel where I was staying, I was called down to the front desk in the early evening to meet with a young man who wanted...
Two years ago, after a flood in our kitchen and living room due to a defective pipe in our 12-year-old refrigerator, we were faced with the necessity of buying a new one. So off we went to our local Best Buy retailer, where we experienced...
Uncovering coworker’ hopes and dreams is the key to unlocking positive emotions and intrinsic motivation and building a corporate culture where everyone thrives. Professionals at all levels in an organization need help to embrace needed changes and to work and learn new things. The best...
Maybe it’s time to move toward a friendlier future. We live in a world exploding with technological innovation. And this rapid pace of change is only accelerating. We are at the forefront of a new revolution for which most of us are unprepared. Before we...
Few things are as important to a company’s long-term health as the culture permeating its daily operations. Sociologists and economists tell us that creating companies is the optimal way for increasing the collective well-being of society. And it is true that this starts when company...
Trust, according to Wikipedia, is a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. Peter Kozodoy in Honest to Greatness: How Today's Greatest Leaders Use Brutal Honesty to Achieve Massive Success tells us that if we cannot trust the people...
Over 25 years ago, I collaborated on the book, Adult Religious Education: A Journey of Faith Development, with Marie A Gillen and Maurice C. Taylor of the University of Ottawa. My chapter was entitled "Ethics and Authenticity: Implications for Practice." In summary, I wrote that ethics...
The scale and size of bureaucracies, which once made our companies strong and prosperous, are now liabilities in this era of constant change. We are asked daily to reinvent the future but to do so inside a culture of work that is deeply broken. Today...