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Take one champion-step-dancing mom and a fiddle-playing dad from the Canadian heartland. Add eleven brothers and sisters, eight of whom have more talent than most living human beings, and what do you get? A musical phenomenon called Leahy. I was lucky enough to catch one of their Christmas Tour concerts a few years ago, and…
White Paper A Model for Systematic Performance Feedback in a Self-Managed Work Environment: Creating Powerful Continuous Peer Feedback Loops Self-managed work environments present a challenge for delivery of effective performance feedback. In a truly self-managed organization, there are no designated managers or supervisors, meaning that any performance feedback must originate with one’s peers. This works…
Wrote this white paper in 2007 to develop a process culture and create real value from business processes at Morning Star. Although focused on Morning Star at the time, the principles and concepts in this paper may be applied universally. Thanks to Roger Burlton and his tireless support for inspiring this paper. Download the white…
A tongue-in-cheek and entirely fictional flight of fancy from early 2005 describing the benefits of organizational self-management for business performance. Available at the links below: Functional Hierarchies? We Don’t Need No Stinking Functional Hierarchies! Original publication: BPM Group, January 2, 2005 With apologies to Gold Hat, as played by Alfonso Bedoya in “The Treasure of…
In late 2004 and early 2005, I wrote a series of reviews of an online training product called 8 Omega for the BPM Group, which no longer exists. It was an interesting exercise, and educational–it gave me an opportunity to develop my writing chops. The articles can be accessed at the links below: 8 Omega:…
