We have all likely been part of a team where someone makes a mistake and hides it. We could have easily mitigated the issue and moved on. However, we are now in panic mode calling tiger teams or ...

Last month, leaders from Accenture, Dropbox and Walmart met at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit—a forum that connects, inspires and equips the next generation of female leaders—to explore ...

When was the last time you asked your team what they wanted to learn and how they wanted to learn it? A culture of learning starts at the C-suite. Leadership must value a learning program that is more ...

For most businesses, the past few years have presented new challenges regarding employee retention. My company is no different. More recently, we’ve figured out strategies that help us attract and ...

With all the recent changes in the labor market that have been accelerated by Covid, the skills gap has ballooned; last year, the World Economic Forum calculated that addressing the gap could result ...

A few years ago, leaders at the Gates Foundation reached out to see if I could help them improve their culture. They already had a strong culture of performance: They hired world-class scientists and ...

In his book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, scientist and organizational-theory expert Peter Senge describes a learning organization as a place “where people ...

In a learning organization, people are motivated, work effectively with others and innovate and aspire to do their best. As Peter Senge describes in his seminal 2006 work, The Fifth Discipline: The ...

My aha! moment about the zero-defect concept happened in 2009. We were discussing with a customer how to document all data created during the production process in order to enable a traceability ...

Problem Statement: There are far too many builders in Vermont who continue to suffer from a lack of an applicant pool of skilled carpenters, see the workforce that has slid from the once esteemed ...