Tag Archives: process improvement

November 03

When Does The Learning Stop?

While preparing for this post, I ran across a factoid (published by the Jenkins group, a private book publisher) that boggled the mind (or at least mine). According to Jenkins, 42% of college graduates never read a book again, ever. Um…wow.  That’s even worse than the 30% of high school graduates who follow the same […]

September 29

The Learning Leader

The other day, I had the opportunity to briefly chat with a colleague whom I had managed for several years, and who themself was now in a leadership position.  The general conversation was about how they had identified some key sources of leadership guidance early on and continually referred to it whenever a particular problem or issue […]

Leading Performance and Change – “Whom Do I Lead? – Part III”

Having identified the “tangibles” of whom is led (self and others), the next category is more of a “what” is led. Besides the clearer human targets of subordinates, peers, bosses, teammates, leaders are at the front of the crowd with respect to leading the things that happen in an organization. For the purposes of this […]