Archive for November 2013

Answering the Question Of Fit

There’s a moment in the employee life cycle when they are forced to confront the inevitable question of fit. Are they a fit for the role is one aspect of the question, but it doesn’t go deep enough? The more important question is, are they a fit for the organization? Technical skills can be taught […]

Setting Business Strategy As An Imperative

A.G. Lafley, former head of global consumer giant, P&G, put forth a 5 step template on how to think about strategy in your organization. It’s a solid foundation for those of us in the strategy space to start from because it gets at the heart of what strategy is all about. Identifying opportunities, understanding the […]

Branding Learning And Development

What is the learning and development (L&D) brand at your place? Do you even have an L&D brand? Would your employees recognize any of your offerings? Do you differentiate between high potential development and mass development? Do people want in, or are they forced to want in? For as long as I can remember, we […]

Building Culture Through Shared Experiences

Organizational cultures get built over instances of time. They don’t get created  overnight. It takes time to build them, but they can come crumbling down in a blink of an eye, so you have to actively manage it. You can deny its existence and hope that benign neglect of its existence works, but the reality is […]