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Designing With People, Not Just for Them
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Organizations often introduce new systems and processes without adequately involving the people who understand how work actually gets done, only to interpret subsequent workarounds and inconsistent adoption as employee resistance. Designing with people rather than simply for them brings practical knowledge and experience into decisions about what…
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Control: The Most Potent Addiction of All
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: The need for control can create a sense of security while gradually increasing dependence, limiting initiative and reinforcing the very conditions we’re trying to prevent. Recognizing the boundaries of our responsibility and influence allows us to make more appropriate decisions without assuming that every outcome must be…
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Why Understanding People Remains One of the Biggest Challenges in Organizations
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Whenever I ask people about the biggest recurring problem in their organization, I am struck by how often the answer is the same: people. Pablo Neruda’s We Are Many made me wonder whether one reason people remain so difficult to understand is that none of us is…
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Why Does Rest Have to Justify Itself?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We talk about rest as though it must improve our performance before it can earn a place in our lives. When productivity becomes the measure of whether time was well spent, even leisure can begin to feel like something we have to justify. I am a poster…
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