Category Archives: Change

Building OKR Compatible Performance Management Systems

OKRs are a powerful goal-setting and leadership tool for communicating strategic priorities and the milestones you’ll need accomplish. When smartly paired with performance management systems, this can be a powerful alignment tool. Yet there are some critical mistakes that are too often ignored.

5 Ways To Change Behavior Through High Impact Learning

Learning and development is a booming industry with $83 billion spent annually in the US and nearly $360 billion globally. Yet these efforts are not consistent with performance. A recent study shows both the need for learning and development as well as the failure of current efforts: 70% of employees claim they don’t have masteryContinue reading “5 Ways To Change Behavior Through High Impact Learning”

What the Holacracy?

A couple of weeks ago, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, sent the following memo to all of his employees.  In this lengthy email, Hseih outlined his strategy for growing the business through Holocracy, an approach to organizational governance where decision-making, authority, and structure are distributed throughout the organization instead of being housed or owned byContinue reading “What the Holacracy?”

If you are not sick and tired of communicating, you aren’t communicating enough.

Leading Change Not too long ago I had ACL surgery.  While going through the process I had the opportunity to consider the similarities between my experience with the doctor, and many people’s experience with change in their organizations. My knee doctor is great at what he does—he’s the head physician for the US Snowboard TeamContinue reading “If you are not sick and tired of communicating, you aren’t communicating enough.”