Patrick Lencioni thinks that the reason passion-driven leaders and their social sector organizations underperform and their for-profit performance-driven counterparts are lacking in compassion is the acceptance of mediocrity and lower standards on both sides of the equation.  (See Pat’s Point of View April 2009.) Now that I’ve accumulated enough experience on both sides of the [...]

I’m teaching my favorite class at JFKU this quarter (I admit, it’s one I developed) – Organizational Culture and the Emotionally Intelligent Work Environment.  It’s a hybrid class – a combination of classroom and online – and one of the online discussion threads provided a workplace example of culture change I found very interesting.  The [...]