Spirituality, Creativity, and Solving New Problems
Creating a generative learning team is essential to organizational effectiveness and such a team depends on spiritual and knowledge-based resources to solve problems.
Organizational Behavior
Thriving Through Crisis: A Resiliencing Approach
Resiliencing starts with adopting a mindset that emphasizes proactivity in looking for early signs of alarms and establishing and sustaining concrete practices.
Building Positive Organizational Communities
Fostering a sense of high-involvement community strengthened by high-quality connections may be the recipe for competitive advantage in today’s marketplace.
The Garden: An Organismic Metaphor for Distinguishing Inclusion from Diversity
Many organizations erroneously interchange the terms diversity and inclusion, obscuring the focus, therefore the effectiveness, of well-intentioned interventions.
Kindness and Self-Interest
In an competitive world, leaders must become students of human relations and recognize that managing by command and control rarely works in today’s economy.
Integrative Consulting
Consultants can add value by identifying, educating, facilitating, and guiding involvement of key decision makers and stakeholders through competent social dialogue
The Covenantal Leader
This article explains the role of covenantal leaders in understanding overlooked assumptions making up the unspoken psychological contract between leaders and followers.
Hiring Disabled Workers
Too often the ability of the community of disabled persons to constructively contribute to society and the recognition of their need to do so is overlooked.
The Benefits of Mindfulness in Leading Transformational Change
The experience of ambiguity can be unsettling and anxiety provoking for all concerned, thereby impairing organization members’ willingness and ability to change.
Six Characteristics of Virtuous Organizations
The notion of a virtuous organization is the result of an evolving, but grounded, field of study in leadership and management that is a mash-up of ethics theory.
Trends in Employee Turnover and Retention
After decades of globalization and intensifying competition, the market for talent has replaced loyalty as the factor shaping the relationship of employers/employees.
High Performance Work Systems
While foolish for companies to spend money unwisely in managing human capital, growing research confirms that “high performance work systems” are worth the investment.
Infusing Traditional Business Systems with Spiritual Wisdom
Spiritual wisdom like mindfulness coexists in unconventional ways with traditional business models resulting in positive outcomes for the organization.
Developing Peer Coaching
A peer-coaching relationship can be less expensive than professional executive coaching, more intimate and honest, and provide a more diverse perspective.
Managing the Dark Side of Competitive Rivalry
However, competition can become so intense that it can be counterproductive and lead to alarming behavior.