By Sue Bingham Manufacturing lives and dies by the numbers. Measurable data that tells you whether you have met production goals or are running at full capacity is an essential part of improving operations and safety at any well-run company.…
Digital Transformation – Part III: The Internet of Things Changes Everything
By Rod Collins In 2006, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams described in their book Wikinomics how a new phenomenon they called mass collaboration was going to change everything. They recognized that this unprecedented capacity for self-organization would give rise…
The High Price of Overly Prescriptive HR Policies
by Sue Bingham Recently, one of my colleagues left our firm to make significantly more money at another company. We wanted to keep her, but the commission-based salary offered by the other company was more than we could match. She…
Digital Transformation – Part II: Collective Intelligence Is the Game Changer
By Rod Collins The science fiction writer William Gibson once astutely observed, “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed.” As described in last month’s blog, our future is a digitally transformed world that will usher in an…
Digital Transformation – Part I: It’s All About Networks
By Rod Collins In his recently published book, The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks, Joshua Cooper Ramo relates the story of one the most closely guarded secrets during the early years of the Cold…
If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It
By Sue Bingham Three years ago, 37% of CEOs were concerned about a lack of trust in businesses, according to the PwC Annual Global CEO survey. Across industries, that number has climbed to 55%. A high level of trust between managers and…
Why should CEOs, leaders, founders care about “purpose”?
By Brooke Erol When I joined the workforce 28 years ago, we were not supposed to talk about creating meaning at work. We were just lucky enough to have a job to pay the bills. I still tried to find…
Resolve to Lead Differently
By Michael Edgley, Business Consultant and Facilitator, HPWP Consulting At this time of year, many of us make New Year’s resolutions to live a healthier lifestyle, break bad habits or to develop better relationships. These are important changes to be…
5 Ways to Expand Leadership Consciousness for Great Workplace Cultures
By Dawna Jones Monday, August 8th, 2016 we used up all the resources generated by Earth in a year. Humanity’s annual demand for what nature can generate for our existence has been exceeded. Out of what Earth generates, according to the…
Seizing the Executive Imperative To Expand Consciousness
By Dawna Jones Are company decision makers setting executives up to fail? Or is something else going on? Fifty to seventy-five percent of newly hired executives fail in the first eighteen months. Apart from predictable reasons such as inadequate formal development,…