Organizational and managerial lessons that come through failure provide the best education and opportunities for organizational learning. Failure is also a necessary part of organizational innovation. In In this video from Harvard Business Review, Dr Amy Edmondson explains strategies for learning from failure. In this age [.]. MORE >>

Activate Your Goal. It’s one thing to want a new job or career; it’s another thing to actively pursue it. If you don’t develop a plan with specific actions, deadlines, and accountability, what’s to keep you from getting distracted by your everyday concerns and obligations? Activate your goal of a new job or career. MORE >>

I’m usually trying to figure out what is good enough. With work I’m fearful that my good enough may not be good enough, so I tend to over give. Share information and go over-board with a simple question…when just listening and offering 1 idea would have been good enough…I want to give you EVERYTHING including many things you don’t need. MORE >>

Be wary of setting out to win prizes. Truly creative people flourish in the process of solving problems. Good work is the goal; recognition is the consequence. – Max DePree, Leadership Jazz  . Filed under: PMO Tagged: ambition , Leadership , Leadership Jazz , Max DePree , PM Quote of the Day , quotes , solving problems. MORE >>

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development [link] Leaders – and managers for that matter — need to have a heart. If it is your job to guide human beings to be their very best, you need to look at your underlying assumptions about people. In the age of Mass Production it was easy to see people as simply extensions of the machinery; [.]. MORE >>