March 8th, International Women’s Day is a global celebration to engage companies throughout the world in conversations around diversity, equality and inclusion. Learn how companies are performing better while becoming more diverse.
To build the first self-organizing team that embraces the “we” culture, leadership must define the main rules of the road—that is, the framework. To start, there are seven deliverables (7R’s) the company must define. Read more on the cover story on Quality Progress
While failure in the past was taboo, today it has become really popular. Changes are so sudden and vertiginous, that if a product takes two years to go the market, it is already obsolete. Overcoming the fear of failure is one of the skills that leaders need to develop to Read more…
After a 2-year study, Google discovered among five dimensions that make teams successful, the main one was psychological safety.
September has been designated by the National Day Archives as Global Company Culture Month, celebrated on September 18th as the Global Company Culture Day. Learn some tips to promote your company culture.
Companies look forward to increasing innovation, though usually three main factors are neglected: a fear-free environment to allow ideas to flourish, smart risk-taking and agility to take advantage of the innovation before some else does it first.
5S implementations are not always easy to sustain through time. Read these common myths to check how your company is doing. Working with different companies, I have noted that some of them have “tried” to implement 5S in the past, luckily this is their second or third time. Some tried Read more…
The ability to work in self-organizing teams is becoming a key skill not only for entrepreneurs but also for individuals working for companies that embrace innovation. I recently had the chance to visit Zappos headquarters in Las Vegas. Another successful example of a We Culture where employee’s ideas matter and self-organization Read more…
Online training, videos, blogs and social media posts are now competing with trainers and coaches all around the world to gain student’s attention. Why would you pay for agile coaching instead? Spanish – I am usually challenged with the question of why companies would you hire a coach for their Read more…
We organizations are becoming the most powerful and effective organizations in the world. Is your organization one of them? During our childhood we are all encouraged to share our stuff, to be nice to people we don’t know, to have friends. How much of that is really applied to work Read more…