We’ve all heard that green is the new black. In the ’90s, organizational culture was touted as essential for business success, and social responsibility seems to have taken its place. A lot of companies are finding it’s good to be green as they integrate environmentalism and sustainability...

During the recession many companies faced extraordinary organizational and productivity disruption as they devolved in a matter of months, sometimes even weeks, from a heavily staffed, money-making machine to a very lean organization where every staff position had to contribute directly to revenue production. Today...

Learning and development professionals have never been at the top of the corporate salary scale. Whether placed in the human resources function or elsewhere, training professionals are rarely seen as the most essential, powerful or highly regarded employees, not even when viewed from within their own...

Companies around the world have realized that implementing a tuition program has various organizational benefits, and serve many diverse functions.  In fact, approximately 85% of companies have some form of tuition assistance program, according to a 2008 Bersin & Associations Tuition Assistance...

Acknowledging each other’s accomplishments, talent and wisdom on a continuous basis is the grown-up equivalent of the grade school gold star and can revolutionize the workplace. Remember the gold star? It’s been decades since I last thought about that classic grade school icon of achievement. Back...

The world may be flat, but human relationships are bounded by limits. Action learning and experiential leadership development can help overcome those personal and organizational boundaries. There’s an interesting paradox at the heart of today’s connected world. Technology and communications...

With the economy still shaking off the effects of a record recession, growth remains a top priority for many organizations. It’s also one of the greatest challenges. Integrating talent management and organizational design may be the solution. The current business environment requires executives...

Introducing a Japanese aesthetic that seems to have all the answers. How being connected, balanced and finding beauty in simplicity translates to a powerful organizational learning method. Imagine you’ve been laid off. Forget rage, betrayal, fright and frustration. Just relax. Don’t do anything....

In my last half-dozen posts I have been focusing on system theories of organization.  I have done this because practitioners of organization development depend upon theories about what makes organizations tick.  Nothing so practical as a good theory said Kurt Lewin, the mind behind action...

Employers often offer mixed messages to their workers about working long hours to meet increasingly expanded responsibilities. But long hours and overwork often lead to errors. Here are some tips to help workers feel less overwhelmed. Because of thunder storms in Atlanta, my flight from Dallas to Atlanta...