Channel MEC is Launched
I went ahead and kicked off the ChannelMEC blog this evening, and hope to add a dozen or so other content contributors by the...
Category: Management 2.0
Making the Case for M-SIG
After my post last night about the Management Excellence Community (MEC) initiatives that I am planning to promote in FY09 (and while waiting for...
In Support of Management Excellence
Over the past couple months, I finally reached out to the Management Excellence crowd and decided to participate. Within weeks, I was snapped up...
Management Excellence Conference
Attend a conference, win some stuff. Nothing brings in the masses like a promise of prizes at the end of the day. Just fill...
Thoughts on Organizational Character
It’s amazing how much can be changed without changing anything. Work streams mobilized, problems identified, action plans captured, chairs rearranged, titles juggled, internal and...
Enduring
I am going through a series of workshops with my current management team, and separately with my team of direct reports, to improve the...
Building An Environment Where People WANT to Work
Ah, I miss Kathy Sierra’s blog, Creating Passionate Users. Every once in a while, I go back through her archives to peruse her many...
(Organizational) Change is Hard
I have been thinking a lot about the changes happening across my current organization, and the flexibility (and inflexibility) of people as they begin...
Failure to Win, Part 2
I just came across a fascinating article by Marina Krakovsky in Stanford Magazine entitled “The Effort Effect” in which she discusses Stanford psychology professor...
Failure to Win, or Winning Failure?
Once again I find myself sitting here in one of the many cafeterias at Microsoft. This time I have "ditched" the office for a...
