HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER
Title: A Slow Ascent into Goodness
Competency: self-development, managing self
Who benefits: all who regularly breathe
Consultant Usage: an opportunity to review and change your consulting approach
What’s it about? Today I begin with a plea. Please click and read the post link below.
We live in a world where negativity prevails. The media makes it money from “reporting†what is wrong. The life cycle of a politician is dependent on his/her ability to point out that the other guy (gal) is worse than he/she is. Bosses chase off employees with all the fault-finding and the blame game. Performance reviews are annual events to remind employees of all the mistakes they made in the past year.
No wonder someone invented the Smiley Face.
Greg McKeown has written an important post. A very, very important post. Do yourself a favor. Do me a favor. Read his post with the very unlikely title of Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?
Read the unbelievable results of when a young, new superintendent of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Richmond, Canada asked the most out-of-the-box question “Could we design a system that encouraged people to not commit crime in the first place?”
Read the results. Look at the statistics. Imagine the possibilities similar questions could produce.
“W. Edwards Deming wrote: ‘A bad system will defeat a good person, every time.’† If so, and I believe so, could the reverse be true. Wow would workplaces look different. And feel different.
And the greatest news of all: It wouldn’t take that much. Read about the three small steps you and I can take to improve the workplace. Heck, while we are at it, we can also improve our personal relationships (kids will love us) … and change our part of the world. The possibilities are endless.
Want more? Check out Dr. Phil Zimbardo, the former president of the American Psychological Association, on a TED TV video as he discusses a grand social experiment called the Heroic Imagination Project.
After reading the post and watching the video my day got a whole lot brighter. We need more feel-good stories!
Catch you later.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.
Bill…cannoat wait to see the TED talk. I have company for the holildays but you said it works any day…I will view it next week. Hope you have a wonderful holiday in gorgeous New Mexico. I am grateful for the thoughts you put in front of me and how they make me think and laugh. Have a great holialy!
Bill…cannoat wait to see the TED talk. I have company for the holidays but you said it works any day…I will view it next week. Hope you have a wonderful holiday in gorgeous New Mexico. I am grateful for the thoughts you put in front of me and how they make me think and laugh. Have a great holialy!