Creating a connection between the community, your company and the people in the process is essential when trying to foster an environment for creativity & innovation. The Western New York region has a strong innovation background and many talented people who are poised to take your company and themselves to new levels of innovation success.
This is a very honest post, about the struggle that I deal with in trying to make teams and leaders better. If we are to really make your organization function and achieve high performance, we need more than window dressing, recreation and placing Fish stickers on the wall. Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what does that mean?
Systems-Drive-Behavior if you are seeing outcomes that you don’t want then we must examine the system that created that behavior. This will force you to face what you believe vs. what is the evidence, and one of those has to win.
Self-deception can quickly lead to organizational-deception when the patterns are pointed out. Our brains want to make sense of things and believe. We want to believe that we are not being fooled and are right. Individual / Team / Folkloric Constructs repeating patterns can lead to success loops or doom spirals.