An original post by Jim Clemmer

A long time reader, P.K. Seshadri, sent this “quip to enjoy and use in your future posts:

Our very first episode of 2012 is a wrap! We kicked off our Complexity Series on January 12, 2012. This episode is also available for viewing on our Episodes Page.

If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
– Yogi Berra (former New York Yankees manager)

I was approached by an employee from another division in my compnay yesterday.  They wanted talk as they were extremely downheartened as a result of a less than motivational appraisal they had received.  I could understand why they felt as they did. 

It reminded of a presentation by Allan Leighton (ex Chairman of British Post and current Chairman of Pace Technology) to the Leaders in London on the subject of appraisals and leadership.   I think this is brillant and the message an extremely powerful one.

Hope you enjoy it as well. 

An original post by Alan Webber.

It’s getting close to the end of the year.

A good time to clean out old drawers filled with even older files.
Here’s one I just found: Lessons From Fast Company. It was a speech I gave in Brazil at a program organized by the remarkable Oscar Motomura not long after Bill Taylor and I exited the magazine that we had jointly created.

Here’s what my speech notes say: