There is a way that work realities are constructed that betrays a lack of understanding and acceptance of an uncomfortable, likely future reality; and betrays a comfort with creating a reality that is comfortable, but unlikely: The comfortable reality is that employers keep hiring (albeit at a lower/slower rate) and Read more…
We are reading The End of Power by Moises Naim and it puts forth a powerful historically broad thesis. Moises asserts that power, and the wielding of that power, isn’t what it used to be. That everywhere, from governments to corporations, power is diffusing and becomes diaphanous, even as the Read more…
Content distribution is hard. Really hard. Here’s why: It’s really difficult to research content, write content and edit content without a commensurate plan to “get it out there.” Here at HSCT, we looked at the distribution part of creating content as secondary to the problem of generating enough content to Read more…
Conflict resolution is not scalable, because trust is not scalable. Make no mistake though, the products of trust are scalable. And the results of trusting an organization, a brand or even another person are scalable. But trust is not scalable. And the reason that it’s not is nuerologically and psychologically Read more…
Stress comes from managing two areas unsuccessfully: yourself and others. Many uninitiated people have the most trouble managing themselves, but lack the self-awareness to realize that the stress they have comes about due to a lack of awareness about why their stress is activated. Many uninitiated people think that managing Read more…
80% of the conflicts in your organization will be solved by 20% of the people in your organization. And, not all of those people will have positional titles, effective job descriptions, or even work in “traditional” departments that “are supposed to” address conflicts. Pushing the frontier of who gets what, Read more…
Emotional intelligence has been a researched concept for many years, but with the authoring of books like Mindsight by Daniel J. Siegel and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, E/I has been reintroduced for a new generation. Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence served as the basis for a lot of Read more…
The more work we do through training others to get in touch with themselves, the more and more surprised we are by how few people in organizations are in touch with themselves. There are three pieces to self-awareness: The ability to be vulnerable—which is typically translated as “the ability to Read more…
There’s actual urgency and perceived urgency. Actual urgency is a chemical spill on the shop floor. Or a heart attack that a midlevel manager has on a Friday afternoon. Perceived urgency is everything else. One of the main struggles that people have with time management is balancing perceived urgency versus Read more…
Time, much like values, beliefs, emotions and even the intellect, is an abstraction. In the agricultural past, humanity measured the passage of time by the sun, the moon and the changing of the seasons. Before industrialization commoditized time as a thing that could be measured in finite amounts, European and Read more…