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Intimacy in the Workplace: Relationships in Teams

Last week Janae wrote about Relationships. This week I invited a friend of mine to be a guest writer for us. Suzann Panek Robins is widely read in the areas of spirituality, psychology, metaphysics, sexuality, and relationships. SheR17;s been a professor at various universities and presented at conferences around the U.S. Suzann has a new …

J&J Accused of Ignoring Red Flags

TodayR17;s business press reports that a lawsuit filed last week on behalf of Johnson & Johnson shareholders accused the company’s directors of ignoring “red flags” foreshadowing product recalls and government probes of manufacturing defects and marketing practices. The lawsuit alleges that while J&J once set “the gold standard for integrity and excellence,” the directors’ “utter …

Values at Work…and at Play

I have to admit that I have a conflict of interest here. All four of my kids have attended Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts. But the story below from boston.com is a good example of how we can instill values in our kids in ways that matter…to them and to us. In the last girls’ …

Last minute social enterprise gifts

ThereR17;s still time to pick up some holiday gifts that also help social enterprises. If thereR17;s a restaurant or coffee shop in your town thatR17;s a social enterprise (and the odds are thereR17;s more than one), give them a call to see if you can purchase a gift certificate. Many of them will let you …

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Acting in Business Training: Unleash Your Potential

Unleash Your Potential: Acting in Business Training This all began as a comment to my LinkedIn colleagues of actors, trainers, speakers, and assorted other related professionals. Someone had asked the question: In your opinion what is the difference between an actor and a speaker? It actually stirred up quite the controversy. Actors, speakers, and trainers …

Metaphors Be With You: The Strategist as Poet

Strategy-making begins with an idea. Without a guiding idea there can be no sense of direction. Yet many articles and books about strategy do not address a most important matter: how to generate ideas. To conceive the essential set of ideas that we call strategy, the strategist must understand and master the art of the …

How NOT to Do Strategic Planning!

I got a call from an organization that was (as they said) “desperate to finally do good strategic planning.” A Far Too-Common Approach to “Strategic Planning” The previous two times they did “planning,” the organization hired a facilitator and: 1. Got Board members together for one retreat. 2. Word-smithed the words on their mission statement. …