EOS
Above is a model I share with my clients to show them that what they are doing in the room with me, defining and operationalizing Organizational Cognizance®, is preparing them to catch the waves of AI, both traditional automation AI and generative AI. [Note: Generative AI was not used in
Accountable
An organization is essentially a fiction, only given meaning and power by those who believe in it, who buy in. Why do folks always hear me use the term organization and not companies or businesses? For starters, that would be too narrow. What we focus on transforms any entity that
Believe
As a business owner, you undoubtedly hope for the best when it comes to the future. Whether you are ultimately hoping to become wealthy, or you are simply building a small, humble organization because it is your chance to construct a workplace culture that you would be thrilled to work
Accountable
Over the course of the past 13 years, I’ve interacted with nearly 200 business owners who had questions about optimizing employee engagement within their organizations. It’s not that the organizations were in desperate need of help. On the contrary, some of these businesses were performing very well, and
Accountable
There is a scene from the film "We Are Marshall" that perfectly conveys the importance of verbal communication if you truly wish to be heard and understood and to have the full significance of your statements appreciated. On November 14, 1970, the plane carrying the Marshall University football
Accountable
Dear Clients and Friends, I wish I were not writing this, I am cognizant of the situations and extremes I may be writing to and I pray for the best as soon as possible. We are in this together, and I want to take some time to share some guidance
Accountable
In the pages of Attract or Repel, I laid out the BITE7 Framework, which allows everyone within your company to align themselves with your mission by deciding if they can answer “yes” to questions of belonging, belief, accountability, measurement, communication, development and balance. The ultimate benefit of this process is
Believe
When it comes to questions about why human beings are present on Earth, a wide array of belief systems have been developed over several millennia by different individuals, groups, and cultures in an effort to produce satisfactory answers to those questions. Yet, when it comes to matters of business, arriving
Accountable
In most hiring situations, the first time a candidate comes across the radar of a business is when the job seeker submits a resume to the HR department or HR representative. If the applicant appears to check all of the necessary boxes - an impressive education, and years of employment
Believe
To conceive of their businesses as fictional entities is a difficult task for several business leaders to engage in, and for a very good reason. After all, the buildings, desks, chairs, computers, logos and employees are certainly very real, and far from fictional. So, in what way are we suggesting
Accountable
When it comes to balance in the workplace, several different explanations are employed to describe what it means, and many of these definitions are correct in one respect or another. In fact, the most complete description of workplace balance incorporates multiple elements from the popular definitions of balance. This ultimately
Accountable
Quite often, one of the first obstacles to reconfiguring a business into a Patient Organization through the BITE7 methodology is revealing to the owner of the company that he is not already at the helm of a patient organization. This is an understandable, yet nonetheless harmful misinterpretation of one or