“What got you here won’t get you there” can (and should) be applied to many aspects of an evolving organization. Today, we’re taking this lens and applying it to competencies. The end of the year is…
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Thursday Thread: Iceberg of Ignorance
Here’s how we sometimes see the question of “how’s this week been?” being answered across an organization… Staff to peer: “I’m getting to the point of burn-out. This tool isn’t working as expected. Communicating with…
Thursday Thread: Stockdale Paradox
Ever heard of the Stockdale Paradox? It’s a concept introduced in Jim Collins’ Good to Great, coined after a Senior Naval Officer, James Stockdale, a prisoner of the Vietnam War who tortured over 20 times…
Thursday Thread: One Year Ago…
A message from our co-founder, Shereen Sater, for today’s #ThursdayThread: One year ago today, Lindsey and I were in the thick of our capstone projects trying to figure out what an ideal life looked like for both…
Thursday Thread, DIRTY WORDS: #INNOVATION
Innovation… my favorite [dirty] word. It gets a bad rep in organizations – it’s scary and comes with a tons-of-extra-hours connotation. Our mind goes to products, revenue, and time. But really, innovation is an “um, duh,…
Thursday Thread: It’s all gra(v)y, baby
“The Neutral Zone.“ Introduced to listeners of ZigZag, host Manoush Zomorodi shares the term originally coined by William Bridges to help organizations understand that cloudy area between an ending and a new beginning. (Listen to…