Organizational challenges are undeniable realities. They can be negative, such as declining profits, or they can be positive, such as lack of focus during a hyper-growth period. Regardless of what they are...

We all have 99 problems, but solving them should not be one.

Why would AI be any different? Will some jobs go away? Sure, but it stands to reason that new categories of jobs will replace them. Why not embrace AI, especially generative AI, which we used to create most of the website (including research for many of our posts)?

Whether you are the senior leader in your organization, someone with empowered organizational influence, or rank-and-file on your team, here are five truisms that will help you change culture – or do something enough like it.

Because, you know, clichés exist for a reason - they, after all, are based in truth (or at the very least describe reality). If that is the case, then why do so many writers/bloggers/pundits out there do so much to speak out against the use of clichés (simply do a search for the word cliché, and you will see as many posts about avoiding them as anything else)?

That is not to say that I have never been there before (well, I do not mean to brag, but it is a regular thing for me). It has taken me years to perfect this method (see my post on how I get things done). So the method that I have produced is very simple and very compelling. In fact, I can guarantee that my method will work for anybody.

I believe the goal of marketing is to produce a behavioral change in people from something that does not benefit you to something that does, and the way you do that is to "tell the right stories to the right people."

As a matter of course, everyone, every day, is faced with a series of decisions. A constant onslaught of decision points interweaves the fabric of our lives. It starts at the first dawn of consciousness and ends with its last flicker. The very moment we experience lucidity is the very moment we have to make a decision.

But what indeed fascinates me about it is something that goes beyond the traditional ideas of organizational development in the sense of strategy and structure. I am enthralled with the constituents of the organization itself.

I have been on a never-ending quest to be more personally productive. From using note capture services to pen-to-digital tools to creating my own format for daily notes to using Obsidian, I am constantly tinkering with things.