The problem was, How do we talk about the difficulty of letting go of things that don’t work in order to take hold of things we can only hope will work? The solution was a parable about a dog, a bone, half a pound of ground beef and a kind master. It’s called The Dog’s Dilemma.
Abraham Maslow is widely credited with originating the Four Stages of Learning model for individual and corporate change. Though Maslow never did much with it, a good many people have taken a swing at improving on his thinking about how organizations learn and change (Mike Vance introduced the model to us about 1980). The Change Engine is our attempt to account for key variables in perception and behavior — especially as they affect corporate learning. [first in a series]
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact [...]
Some advertisers think about how to get someone else to tighten his belt while the truth comes out: They think we’re stupid.
Jim Hancock thinks about mastery in the context of what may be the only sports story you’ll ever hear from him.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact [...]
So maybe we can’t really — it seems impossible that I’m about to write this — maybe we can’t just take everything we read at face value…
I mean, who sends you those crazy internet gossip emails? I’ll tell who thinks of me when they read something no reasonable person would take seriously: It’s Christian friends [...]
What’s worse than useless data is fabricated and misleading data cynically employed to create fear or confusion by people who really should know better.
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact [...]
Picking up on Al Lunsford’s Write What You Mean post, Jim Hancock spots a common offense against clear thinking and customer communication: Useless Data.
Jim Hancock is caught between Bernard Moon’s question, “Can You Wait On God?” and Harvard Business School professor James Haskett who wants to know, “Why Don’t Managers Think More Deeply?”
Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact [...]
Every August, the Education Department at Wisconsin’s Beloit College publishes a Mindset List to remind the school’s faculty — and the rest of us — what the world looks like for the incoming freshman class. Most of this year’s freshmen were born in 1990. They will enter the workforce in 2012 not knowing some things [...]
Mea (so very) Culpa
In all the excitement of launching InsideWork 3.0. one thing I missed was that while I knew Brett Johnson’s five videos on Repurposing Business were brand new every Monday, the way we presented those videos on our front page did nothing to tell you they were new every Monday. By which I mean, they all [...]
Jim Hancock interviews Brett Johnson — an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson — on transforming businesses to accomplish more than bottom line profitability.
