The whole and its parts

The whole & its parts

Category: Performance

Owning the agenda

In principle meetings always have an agenda. Owning the agenda is different. It is shaping

Task overload

While attending the ISPSO conference last week I was a participant as well as, what

Effective leaders

Listening to a panel on governance systems and personal power skills, Dr. Daniel Vasella, one

What you see …

Organizations have to deal with contradictory and opposing forces. If one person emphasizes the short

Taking a stance

Depending on the atmosphere in an organization, taking a stance will have a different meaning.

Nice and being nice

Sometimes we’ll notice a dissonance in a person’s behavior. It’s not always very clear, an

Decaying gate

Admiring the leader

Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, or Rosa Park have all found admiration at some

Making it right

The team had worked out a proposal for several grants and was presenting them to

Listening to advice

“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by

two fields

Right from here to there

Doing the right thing is quite different from doing things right. Both are useful. At

Joining the rat race

As organizations grow they frequently do so by simply adding new tasks as they appear.