Why it is Wrong to Blame Leadership?

How do leaders get organizations out of bad habits? How do they improve the culture? Negative thinking causes depression and anxiety in people and organizations. Positive thinking creates better habits and produces resiliency in people. Does it do the same in corporations? This thought caused me to wonder about our thinking around problem solving and Read More …

Mapping your Bounded Rationality

This Introduction to Concept Mapping by Robbert Hubbard gives clear-cut instructions to getting started. You may want to follow along with making notes in a mapping practice. Bounded Rationality? Rick explains that in the video. A great learning tutorial is available at http://learn.cmappers.net/ The book that covers this mapping process in great detail: Applied Concept Read More …

Q & A on Project Management #2

In the a blog post early this week, Interview Questions and Answers on Project Management, I listed several questions that I have been asked on project management. I thought I would finish up the week with the rest of questions from the interview. Hope you enjoy! What part of this project most appeals to you? Read More …

Building Positive Engagements

David Shaked of Almond-Insight  has just finished his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma  Using various strength-based approaches such as Appreciative Inquiry, David has created a radically different way to approach Lean Six Sigma. He calls this method Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma. Transcription and PDF Download Transcription and PDF Download Related Podcast: Building Positive and Engaging Read More …

Put an Emphasis on Evaluation and Monitoring

What I like about the Outcome-Based planning approach is the emphasis it puts on evaluation and monitoring. I like to think of it as the area that makes you smart. Organizations are always trying to create a future state, a place they want to be. This is often done in isolation away from customers or Read More …

A Trumpet for Smarter Solutions

Forrest Breyfogle: is the CEO of Smarter Solutions. Forest has authored or co-authored over a dozen books. His most recent book is The Business Process Management Guidebook: An Integrated Enterprise Excellence BPM System. His five-book set, Integrated Enterprise Excellence provides radical management advancements in the utilization and integration of scorecards, strategic planning, and process improvement. Read More …