

Giving and Receiving Feedback: An Essential Skill
One of the most important soft skills in life is the ability to give and receive feedback. It is particularly vital in virtually all work...


Resilience In Organizations
We think of resilience as one of the key personality traits for life success. But resilience can apply to organizations as well. It...


Defining Quality And Excellence: The Holy Grail
Notions like excellence or quality are widely discussed, yet remain somewhat elusive when it comes to agreeing an accepted definition....


On Resilience, Perseverance and Grit
One of the key life skills that can help determine success in life are the psychological traits of resilience perseverance and grit....


Psychometric Tests and Personality Inventories
The Five Factor hypothesis to personality differences is well known to those familiar with psychology literature. It represents a...


Digital Technologies and Organizational Development
Most organizations are using digital technologies to improve operating efficiency as well as the customer experience. Although these are...


On Phishers and Phools – or on the fallacy of free markets
The huge (and growing) gap between rich and poor was the subject of a recent Oxfam report. It points out the staggering fact that the 62...


On Personal Resilience….or On Orchids vs Dandelions
I’ve written about organizational excellence and its likely antecedents and consequences. Successful organizations possess...


The Power and Limitations of Organizational Metaphors
We use metaphors all the time as a way of enhancing our understanding by seeing things in a different light. Simply put, metaphors...


The Digital Revolution In Marketing Research
Legacy business models are under challenge all around us. What iTunes has done to the music industry, Expedia to travel, Amazon to...