by Norman Wolfe | Oct 19, 2016 | Management, Norman Wolfe
Lean Process Improvement has become a popular and very dominant approach for organizations to improve their operational effectiveness. And yet, depending on which reports you read, anywhere from 40% to 90% of all Lean projects fail. The Western’s world business...
by Norman Wolfe | Dec 1, 2015 | Leadership, Management, Meaning, Norman Wolfe, Organization & Culture, Purpose, Quantum Leaders, Strategy, Uncategorized
In our last blog, Jane shared how her Soulful Purpose guides her choices. But how people know what their soulful purpose is? My journey to discovering my purpose began during a rather difficult period in my life. I was around 40 when I left the corporate world and...
by Jane Wolfe | Aug 5, 2011 | Innovation, Leadership, Management, Norman Wolfe, Organization & Culture, Strategy, Uncategorized
In 1992 Margaret Wheatley wrote a book, Leader and the New Science. I had it in my bookshelf for probably 10 to 15 years but never got around to reading it, that is, until now. I am amazed at how much she writes is what I present in my book The Living Organization®....
by Jane Wolfe | Jul 19, 2011 | Innovation, Leadership, Management, Norman Wolfe, Organization & Culture, Strategy, Strategy Execution
One of the three tenets of The Living Organization® model for creating results is the interdependence of the three energy fields of Activity, Relationship, and Context. The Context defines what the possible range of results can be. Yet, we continually lean on our...
by Jane Wolfe | Jul 5, 2011 | Board of Directors, Corporate Board, Governance, Leadership, Management, Norman Wolfe, Organization & Culture, Strategy, Strategy Execution, TK Kerstetter
TK Kerstetter, CEO of Corporate Boar Member, described how the image of Board of Directors have taken a real pounding in a recent blog . He participated in a number of conferences where he had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of directors. He wrote: “ I...
by Jane Wolfe | May 3, 2011 | Innovation, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Organization & Culture, Strategy, Strategy Execution, Uncategorized
This past weekend we facilitated a strategy session for the board of directors of a local non-profit. Our major objective was to create a greater level of engagement among the board (especially among its large percentage of new members) and to focus their efforts on...
