Is Your HR Department Strategic?

Is your HR department a passive service provider to the organization, or does it play an active and strategic role in achieving your goals? Many HR departments have been mired for so long in the minutia of administrative and legal responsibilities, that they don’t...

Layers Eat Speed

Layers in an organization eat speed, muddle messages and draw out decision-making. Like the childhood game, Telephone, when players whisper a message round a circle, layers confuse. What starts out as, “The yellow dog ran toward the hippopotamus,” after seven layers...

Don’t Be Afraid Of The Big Waves

As a kid, my parents loved taking my siblings and me to swim in the wavy oceans around the world. Most family vacations involved oceans and tropical weather as both my parents grew up in South Africa, and they really missed that aspect of life after immigrating to the...