Archive for the ‘Healthy, High-Performance Organizations’ Category

“Boats aren’t designed to live in a harbour.”

This quotation, often used by my brilliant colleague Jim Motroni, is intriguing… it makes the obvious point boats are designed and are at their graceful best under full sail on wide oceans working with tides, wind and waves.

Treat your Work as Play – and Never Work a Day?

December 5th, 2013 by Xisca Mairata

If play and work are on opposite sides of the spectrum, how can we collapse the gap between them?

G’day, it is small touches that change our world… this below will never make a desk calendar or a thesis… It is simply what a few folk I’ve being working with in Telstra have chosen to add at the end of their emails… particularly when sent late or across time zones. I think is an…

Stretching…

January 26th, 2013 by Mickey Connolly

I like quotations, and I have a quotation site I especially like full of nuggets I often find timely and relevant.  Earlier this week, one showed up right at the end of a two-day strategy meeting: “Set a goal SO BIG that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.” As…

Leading Healthy Organizations

October 19th, 2012 by Mickey Connolly

Leaders create the conditions for positive organizational health, and are a product of them.  Yes, you heard me right.  Leaders make organizations healthy or not, and they are made by them. This can occur as an irresolvable paradox—how can I be responsible for making something if it is also making me at the same time? …

Hard-wired for Collaboration

June 15th, 2012 by Anne Murray Allen

How do we build organizations that support collaboration? It begins with a network. Although people often talk about the ‘networked’ organization as the next great choice in organization design, it is a bit misleading.  In fact, all organizations, all human systems, have existed as networks.  This may be invisible to some people, but humans are…