Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? President Will Cooper – You’re meant for something more than this. Cooper, his friend, knew Same still had potential. President Will Cooper – Let the nerds take over. Sam Brenner had a lot of potential.

Cooper 120

Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. If so, you should examine your management system. It is a bad sign and points to serious management problems. Point 10 on W.

Deming 28

Deming System Incentives Short-term 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Many managers miss or underestimate the potential harm to high performers from their teams. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion. As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”

Team 14

Team Comparison Cooper Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In part, because as a parent, I'm always a little surprised when children do their homework without parental micro-management, but also because these two 8th graders made collaboration look like child's play. And yet that's not always our experience in the office. Remember that our collaborators are competent.

Micromanagement 22

Micromanagement Hammer Drucker Short-term 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It could be that it attracts employees who care about this issue, or that it makes management more likely to stay in that organization. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. But in reality, it was more personal.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. They wind up acting selfishly even when cooperating would pay off because they don’t stop to think. In the Irvine, California, office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise in which they could define collective norms.

Cooper 8

Cooper Hammer Training Film 8