What is the expected outcome? What is your goal? What is your target? How will you measure this? Do these sound familiar? I have always succumbed to the philosophy that you should never have one single goal in mind. I was taught to set three goals. The use of three enables you to establish a Read More …
Jeffrey G. Soper, Ph.D., Executive Director of the International Strategic Business Partner Institute, and the creator of Problem Solving LeadershipTM and the C.L.I.C.KTM Process is my podcast guest this week. Dr. Soper is a seasoned executive, consultant, author, and coach who is a recognized expert in the fields of leadership development, performance improvement, and creativity Read More …
Issue Mapping is the process of crafting an issue map, a way of making critical thinking visible. An issue map is a graphical network that integrates many problems, solutions, and points of view and shows the deep structure of an issue. Issue maps can be sketched on paper, but larger issue maps are typically crafted Read More …
When was the last time you had a discussion about designs with more than one blocking variable, such as a Latin Square Design? Or maybe, a midnight discussion on empirical modeling or factorial designs at two levels? Those were the days. Recent publications, spurred by Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup, are Lean UX: Applying Lean Read More …
In his upcoming book Problem Solving LeadershipTM, Dr. Jeffrey G. Soper challenges the conventional wisdom of current leadership development thought and practice stating that “The problem with leadership can be found in the definition of the leadership problem.” His challenge is not that the focusing upon leadership skills and follower receptivity is wrong, but rather Read More …
Ken Rolfes of KDR Associates was my guest on the Business901 podcast, A Lean Practitioner. In the podcast, I asked Ken what he enjoyed most about his work and he replied: Basically, what I enjoy the most is really getting the people energized in companies when they see the possibilities of what they can do Read More …