Is ‘Success Theatre’ Masking Rot in Your Organization?

Feb

Is ‘Success Theatre’ Masking Rot in Your Organization?

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Board of Directors, conflict, decision making, GE, General Electric, Jack Welch, Jeff Immelt, success theater, Wall Street Journal

About teams, Be a better team leader, Headline News, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning

I read an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal this week entitled “How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE.” In it, authors Thomas Gryta, Joann Lublin, and David Benoit describe how the Immelt and his top leaders, “projected an optimism about GE’s business and its future that didn’t always match the […]

Feb

How to Get People To Live Up to Your Expectations

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accountability, alignment, communication, communication breakdown, expectations, goal setting, goals

About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Connect, Right Words to Say

We got talking about expectations in a session I was facilitating last week. The conversation was like a giant projective test; quickly exposing the participants’ core ideologies about people, and relationships, and trust. Some of the people around the table talked about the power of the self-fulfilling prophecy and how setting lofty goals can inspire […]

Feb

The #1 Crisis Facing Organizations: The Need for More Conflict

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conflict, Galbraith, laterals, matrix organization, priorities, prioritization, star model, strategy, structure, SWOT

About teams, conflict, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning

I’m deep into writing my new book and I’ve had an epiphany: Organizations are built to require conflict while employees are built to avoid it. I see this impact of this problem every day, but it took me 20 years to name it. Now it’s so clear. We have set up a fundamental tension between […]

Feb

How to Cope with Backlash to Your Feedback

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defensive coworker, defensive teammate, defensiveness, emotional, feedback, performance management, resistance

About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communicate, Contribute, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

I facilitated a workshop this week that has given me lots of juicy fodder for discussion here with you. The session focused on uncomfortable discussions, including considerable time on how to give and to receive feedback. The conversation evolved as it usually does: we started with the mechanics of how to give feedback and quickly […]

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