At Big Sky ‘Horizon is the pursuit of Excellence’
Case study of Big Sky Credit Union’s use of the OAS to measure progress in their org values project
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Confusion abounds when the culture becomes a myth
article discussing how alignment is a more comprehensive measure of business performance than traditional culture surveys
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Who Says Chinese is Hard?
I pay a lot of attention to the way belief systems prevent us from solving some of the more important problems in the world today. By belief systems, I’m not talking about anything grandiose, but just the assumptions that are made, often unconsciously, about everyday matters. For instance, In a recent article in the Christian…
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DNAm, ‘Third Ear’ offer change and learning — Chris Lonsdale Interview in The Japan Times
Chris Lonsdale was recently in Japan, picking up a DNAm for drawing. While there, he was interviewed for The Japan Times. To read the article, follow the link below. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20060121a1.htm
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A Great Banker
A good article looking at the "war for talent" in the banking industry, and exploring how to hire the right sort of people for the role.
Reprinted from a Banking Today article written by Mark Powell
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DEVELOPING INTERFACE DESIGNERS FOR TOMORROW: Integron Article
How do you develop as a wise, intuitive, ethical and creative Interface Designer? In this paper we present guidelines for effectively interfacing learner cognition that rapidly develops designers with a difference. We call it Integron Learning Design (ILD) (Gorayska and Lonsdale, 2000).
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Pragmatics of Learning: The Integron Method
To enhance the process of learning and teaching at City University we have developed a new
instructional methodology that we have chosen to call Integron Teaching Methodology. This
methodology integrates a range of different techniques (e.g. accelerated learning methods;
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Mental DNA and Competitive Advantage: .pdf of slide presentation
This is the slide show of a presentation given at the Asia Business Forum on April 18, 2005. This is a .pdf file. When you click the link, the file should download and open automatically (either in your browser, or directly in Acrobat Reader). Alternatively, you can right click and save as a file to…
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Coaching Beyond the CEO- the Challenge of Building Business Teams
In this article we explore the dynamics of coaching a team of people rather than just one or two individuals. If you view an executive team in the same light as a sports team, it makes good sense to have a coach working with the whole team. When you coach at the team level you can create a seamless
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Mental DNA and Competitive Advantage
You win or lose depending on the talent in your organisation. Attract and retain talented people, in a way that leads them to perform, and you win. The alternative is mediocrity and all that comes with it.
This article looks at defining mission critical talent, and then describes the process to tra
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To Coach or Not to Coach
When you click on the link below, you will download a .pdf file to your computer. This will open with Adobe’s Acrobat reader.
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The Wrecking Ball Effect
Have you ever wondered why, when you are the same as you have always been, you start getting different reactions from people as you go up in an organization?
The Wrecking Ball effect explains in part what happens with seniority, and why it’s important for senior people to pay extra attention to t
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Leading from not Knowing
Many people in a leadership position believe that they need to know everything in order to lead properly and maintain control in their business or organization. This, however, may be exactly the wrong way to think about leadership, especially in a knowledge based world.
An alternative idea is that
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Measuring Strategy for Breakthrough Performance: An Introduction to The Balanced Scorecard
Many companies today spend a great deal of time, and energy, on developing the company’s Purpose and Values. However, even after strategic direction has been agreed upon it is often difficult to know what action should be taken. There is a major disconnect between the strategy and action.
The Bal
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The Abilene Paradox Described
Ever been in a group where, somehow, you all ended up going somewhere or doing something that NOONE wanted to do? Or, have you ever wondered why groups of people sometimes seem to have an intelligence level that is significantly lower than any of the individuals when working alone?
Group dynamics
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After the Flame Has Died – The Dangers of Burnout
If you are starting to feel that life doesn’t have the same lustre that it had before, or that you can’t seem to find the energy that you once had, then you may well be suffering from burnout.
Burnout, which happens after prolonged periods of stress, can lead to inefficiency or worse. In the ser
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Avoiding the Red Tide – Escaping Financial Crisis in Business
There are times when any business can get into crisis. And there are many reasons for such a crisis, some outside your control and some unavoidable. However, when a crisis hits it’s important that a leader knows what to do.
This article explores, in a simple and direct way, how a leader needs to