Dear Enterprise Leaders, You’re Screwed. Here’s Why.
Dear Enterprise Leader, I’ve got some terrible news for you. Your best talent isn’t good enough to compete. Better talent is at work right across town, in an...
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Why Every Organization Needs Some Misfits
Over the past two months or so, I’ve been playing around a lot on Google Plus – more on that, and on our amazing mentor Elaine Lindsay, in an upcoming post. For now,...
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When You Hate School But Love Education
When Shawn Murphy and I launched Switch and Shift, we knew the bulk of our constituency would be business leaders – which it is, undoubtedly. However, what we didn’t...
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People Are Not Resources
Wheezing from exhaustion is the outdated view that people are resources. The prevailing view of people is one rooted in finances. Resources – money, stocks and...
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7 Ways to Compete on Employee Talent and Grow Your Workforce
The prevailing thought that business competes on price and products is outdated. The paradigm from previous centuries in business was to outmaneuver the competition by...
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How A Culture of Appreciation Develops Engaged and Loyal Employees
Do you look forward to going to work? Do you feel valued and appreciated by your employees or employer? If you work by yourself, do you feel seen by others? If you...
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Delusions of Mediocrity
Recently, my wife Jane and I were discussing my career: in particular, what I planned to do next. Two things precipitated this discussion. For one, as I wrote here, my...
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5 Surprising Ways Leadership Can Motivate Employees and You
These are extraordinary times to be a manager. Sure you can point out the horrendous examples of management so common these days. You could even make a strong case that...
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Role of Trust in Keeping Talent from Leaving
Organizations bleeding talent is a fixable problem. Before we can look at how to fix the problem, let’s look at some of the causes. Breaking Trust The problem has been...
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Does Management Know Best?
The belief that management knows best is outdated. It’s a remnant from the scientific management era that brought factory work to prominence in the U.S....
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5 Areas to Motivate Employees to Grow
At Switch and Shift we are no strangers to defining what leadership in the 21st century needs to be. However, we don’t spend as much time looking at the needed employee...
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#SwitchandShift is the new Home of Theory Y
Welcome to the new home of Theory Y! We’re glad to have you. What is Theory Y, you ask? It’s an eminently forgettable name for a transformative new concept...
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