Category: Teal Organizational Paradigm

Psychological Safety and Attrition

As we start to think about the toll that employee turnover and “Quiet Quitting” is taking on our businesses today, it may be best to understand why our organizations may have problems with attrition….

Reboot Leaders

How have you handled the last 18 months in your business? It’s been a rocky road for most COOs that we talk with. Thinking the crisis will end soon and we can get back…

Imposter Syndrome Logic

I love Adam Grant‘s tiny, but powerful LinkedIn post below that flips our thoughts on Impostor Syndrome around. “If you doubt yourself, shouldn’t you also doubt your judgment of yourself?” I have labored long and…

Are Meetings Broken?

Have you ever thought that our meetings are broken? Meetings are definitely a time-suck if they haven’t been crisply run with a defined demarcation of time and needs. Inefficient and ineffective meetings have the…

Psychological Safety’s Time is Here!

One of my favorite topics to teach is psychological safety. And yet, it is one of the least favorite things I have experienced in my business career – or rather I’ve experienced the absence…

Keeping a Great Culture Alive in the Midst of the Storm

We’re at a difficult place when it comes to employee retention right now. At the COO Forum, we’ve been tracking the problems COOs are having in this area. More than any other topic, the two…

Business World Change

I’m a firm believer that we can change the world wherever we’re at in it. So it seemed fitting to honor my first meeting as a Fellow of the 250-year old UK-based Royal Society…

Flying-Part 1: Belonging

This is a repost of something I wrote about a year ago. It didn’t have a title then, but I’d later come to understand that the series was all about the aspects of flying…

What in the Heck are DUMB Goals?!

We’re so systematized to make Yearly Goals that are SMART Goals, that we forget that there are some things more important than metrics. In my coaching and consulting practice, I help people understand that…