Is your website focused on the customer?
James Maduk just put me in touch with the calculator at http://www.futurenowinc.com/wewe.htm. Just put your URL in the blank, and it will tell you whether ‘you’ are ‘me’ or you focused. And … if you are ‘me’ focused, how might that affect sales?
Seems like a no-brainer.
Well done, Michigan! Well done, Florida!
I am noticing things like this more and more lately. Today, is the launch of the first Organizations Alive! Conference Call. It is a freebie to seven of my colleagues (in Florida, California, Ontario, Alberta, Japan, Mississippi, and Switzerland) because it is an experiment in using the methodology and technology.
As a methodology, I am constantly working with clients and colleagues in the teaching and application of the Organizations Alive! Model, but for the most part, it is something I have done face-to-face. Even though I prefer the personal contact, I have a passion to share the model world-wide, and well, there are just so many hours in a day. So, this evening we are going to ‘meet’ and see how it goes.
As far a technology, we are using a teleconference bridge through www.freeconferencepro.com, and a whiteboard through www.dimdim.com. (more…)
I will refrain from weighing in with my opinion on the current transit strike in the city of Ottawa. As one who is intrigued by organization behaviour, I’d much rather notice the dynamics. Enter the Organizations Alive! Model … (more…)
Does anyone else wonder if the current economic crisis is all in our minds? Michael A. Fletcher and Jon Cohen give us more evidence of how bad things are in the Washington Post: New Poll Shows 63% Are Already Hurt by Downturn. Deepening recession. People hurt. Eroding finances. Economic decline. Worry.
Doesn’t anyone else believe that feelings are as contagious as the flu? Why do we nurse the negative, when it takes just as much effort to think positively and act constructively? We are like sheep.
In Alberta Henderson’s math class, the window shades stay down. ‘You look out that open window and you see the projects,’ she explained. She wants her students to think of where they can go, not where they are from.
Thank you, Sandy Banks, for this story, Jordan High principal finds a formula for success
It appears that Malcolm Gladwell has done it again. Bill Taylor in his article in Harvard Business Publishing, The Secret of Success in a Failing Economy, reports on Gladwell’s new book Outliers: The Story of Success, and how success is more about sheer persistance, than raw talent. Apparently, he even puts a ”10,000-hour rule” on practicing, saying that ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
So true, Mr. Filler!
In your article, President-elect Obama: Leadership already, you put your finger on the magic. “President-elect Barack Obama is a source of great reassurance to the entire nation that better days lie ahead. For the first time in nearly a decade, the American people have an elected leader with not only an instinctive grasp of the power of the spoken word, but who also recognizes the desperate hunger in our nation to rise above petty political differences to rekindle our national sense of well-being.”
President Obama is developing the trust and hope of a nation because he is a man of integrity; he is ‘of the people;’ and he speaks words that inspire and point to a better future.
Thank you, Latent Freudian, for this article, The Maasai and Organization Development.
I am a fan of John Scherer as well, but hadn’t read the OD Practitioner yet. Must do that now!
The peace-making technique and watch story are powerful.
Wow. With all the changes at GulfMark Offshore Inc., I hope they remember that every time a team member comes or goes … everything changes - all the norms, communications, relationships, expectations, values, beliefs, goals … (need I go on?).
I hope they remember that high-performing teams take time, goodwill, and effort to get that way.
All the best to you!
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