We’re seated in a circle, amid concrete floors and a large gallery space which tends to echo sound. A diverse collection of local art hangs noiselessly on the walls. Sculptures perch silently on pedestals. The only sound carrying past our …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. She last blogged about how optimism can engineer the future.]
It’s August: that time of year when many organizations are reforecasting. They are rethinking the year’s …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is COO and Partner at Wisdom Works. Her last blog addressed how leaders engineer optimism.]
My daughter graduated from college in May and she is struggling to apply what she learned. It reminds me …
[Guest blogger Sheldon Romer is a Wisdom Works Performance Coach and the one-time founder and CEO of Rudi’s Organic Bakery.]
In the 1980s an antiperspirant company coined the catchy tagline “Never let them see you sweat.” …
The meeting would have gone swimmingly if not for that one nagging question. My client asked for the umpteenth time if I’d done a critical task for our collaborative project… and I felt myself become rigid inside. As my body …
I was prepping for a teleconference with the Wisdom Works leadership team this morning. In this case, “prepping” was not a legal-pad to-do list or an agenda on my computer screen, but rather a few quiet moments to look out …
My own study subject, Trek the puppy, exemplifying full engagement in the matter at hand.
I just listened to a webinar of late-breaking research about employee engagement and I’m stunned. The bombshell? According to the Human Performance Institute, no less …
My last blog focused on the “burning platform” impetus for change. For some readers, it seemed to touch a nerve. The email, hallway, and taxi-cab conversations I’ve had with executives about the entry ranged from “I’m not convinced change …
The term “burning platform” has popped up for the fifth time this week (feels like the tenth) in my conversations with senior executives. The concept has been around since my days (don’t ask how long ago) leading the change management …
MBA students have pinker hair and more facial piercings than they did a few years ago. To be sure, there are buttoned-up, power-tie types here as well, along with plenty of students dressed somewhere in-between. I’m standing before a sea …
