Advice For OD Professionals

Advice For OD Professionals

I’m a practitioner of organizational development. OD, as it’s called, is the field of practice that primarily focuses on changing people, processes, and structures to help bring about performance improvement. Because OD folks are always striving to help organizations...
Finding Your Golden Silence

Finding Your Golden Silence

Henry David Thoreau, who after spending a year and a half in quiet solitude at Walden Pond certainly earned the right to expound on silence, talks about the necessity to shake off the village as a means of connecting to your inner wisdom. Thoreau also underscored the...
Listen Before You Leap

Listen Before You Leap

Risk-taking is critical to business success. But the starting point for taking smart risks should be in action, not action. Come on, you might be thinking, let’s fast‐forward to where the action is.  Risk‐taking is James Bond throttling a motorcycle off a cliff and...