Podcast – Misadventures in Leading the Same Way in COVID
Studies are showing that a majority of employees are settling into working from home and could see themselves staying with such an arrangement in significant form moving forward. However, managers are less inclined to want to stay remote and would like to have employees come back into the office. We’ve been having discussions about this […]
Podcast – Target COO John Mulligan Joins the Misadventures Show
In this episode, John Mulligan, Chief Operating Officer of Target Corporation joins us to talk about how the company and his Operations team strives to fulfill their Passion ‘To help all families discover the joy of everyday life.’ We talk about how Target aligns to that Passion across stores and functions, how they measure alignment, […]
Podcast – Misadventures in Taking Survey Answers Literally
Employee engagement surveys have been the standard for organizaitons to measure employee sentiment for decades now. However, the structure of these tools beg for organizations, and I’ve been part of the post-survey process, to look at issues at the team level and try to address specific, question-driven feedback. Of course, there are some larger issues […]
Podcast – Interview with Key Hubs CEO Vikas Narula on Informal Leaders and Networks
Vikas Narula, Founder and CEO of Key Hubs, focuses his energy on helping organizations understand who the influencers and informal leaders and how they can leverage that understanding to help communication and sell their mission, vision and strategic plans. The image above represents what his reports look like initially and then after work to strengthen […]
Podcast – Misadventures in mistaking hard work as the goal
Kara Lawson, the head Women’s Basketball coach at Duke University, posted an interesting video recently that differentiated the concepts of hard work and competing. Her premise was that billions of people work hard, but competing brings a different level of performance. Competing brings an aspect of reaching further within yourself to win. Your competition may […]
Podcast – Misadventures in Aligned Product Development
I had the pleasure of talking with Jane Casto, CEO of Stir Creative Drive. Jane has been a product leader in such companies such as Ecolab, 3M and Imation. She now helps small and medious-sized companies become more aligned with their product development processes. She’s seen many companies that have leaned on one major product […]
Podcast – Misadventures in Leading by Fear and Intimidation
In USA Basketball coaches training, they discuss the distinction between power and trust in the coach-player relationship. The coach, always, has a level of upper hand power. This could be seen in playing time. But, it also shows itself in the way the coach treats the player and communicates with them. Coaches can exercise a […]
Podcast – 4 Differences in Organizational Alignment v Employee Engagement
We believe that organizational alignment to mission and vision is the next stage in the evolution of employee engagement, just like engagement was the evolution from employee satisfaction. This podcast delves into 4 key differences between these two concepts, including How alignment adds a layer of purpose How the questions you ask yourself as a […]
Podcast – 3Ms CTO John Banovetz on Leadership, Teamwork and Innovation
I’ve known current 3M CTO John Banovetz since 1984. We were basketball teammates at Hamline University where his job was to score and my job was to make it as tough on him to do so in practice every day. Through our experience together, we developed not only a lasting friendship, but also a great […]
Podcasts – 9 Issues Leaders Face that are Really Related to Organizational Misalignment
We talk with a lot of leaders about the questions they regularly ask themselves about their business. As we dig into these questions with them, we see the underlying issues they are facing aren’t laying at the surface, but deep in their culture. They have significant misalignments in their organization. In various ways, they are […]
