3 Attitudes to Avoid on a Team

A couple of years ago I was a member of three different teams and each was struggling because of the following attitudes. Ego – Each had individuals involved who have, or continue to have, an over-inflated opinion of themselves. This has caused these individuals to be...

How to be a Rebel Lemming

There is a popular, long-standing misconception that lemmings commit mass suicide during migration. This misconception has fostered the use of the metaphor that people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences...

The Art of Killing Trees

Definition: Blahcess – Something that is done repeatedly, without question and has gone on so long that people cannot even explain how it got started, why it’s done, and what its purpose or value is. For a number of years I helped companies select the proper...

Recognizing Blah – People, Places and Things

Definition: Blahbot – A person who because they can’t see beyond the end of their own nose, blindly and without even considering other alternatives, purposefully and willfully does exactly what has always been done before without thinking. In 1914 Thomas J. Watson Sr....

Albert Einstein, Peter Drucker & Star Trek

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” –  Albert Einstein “People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that...