Executive Director at Lead The Difference

Hackathon Public Profile

2 years 11 months ago
We have reframed our focus on 'individual value contribution' and built our hack on the individual-based system for performance. We will give it another edit/look over before Monday but would welcome ... More
2 years 11 months ago
Peter, Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments and for posting your hack! We agree that objectivity is a crucial way to get us to a point at which we can truly value humans and will keep... More
2 years 11 months ago
Thank you Chris! We appreciate your feedback and perspective very much! The human-centered focus is certainly at the heart of our research and hopes for shifting organizational human systems long-te... More
3 years 1 month ago
sounds good Andy! thank you! More
3 years 1 month ago
Andy and Fiona, Thank you - I am well aware of the research out there and who is at the heart of it and believe systems thinking and the associated implications should be a key part of how we rethink/... More
3 years 1 month ago
My experience and the associated meta-analysis is that the right science helps to ensure the opposite of the cloning effect you describe. It actually objectively assesses innate talents which are pa... More
3 years 1 month ago
Hello Fiona! Thank you for reading, thinking and stimulating a clarifying discussion! You are keeping so well connected to this work! Science that replaces the point of contact: resume-based, key... More
3 years 1 month ago
Prior to the close of this discussion of mini-hacks, let me know your thoughts of the summary initially provided (above) and how we might develop this topic into a mini-hack! More
3 years 1 month ago
Really appreciate this 'headline' and hack! What if performance appraisals were 75% objective (this means NO manager evaluations!) and 25% subjective (some manager evals and peer reviews? What if th... More
3 years 1 month ago
Thank you Julien and excellent and though provoking dialogue all! I really appreciate Perry's comment about people being called to a role/org or mission. Fiona's point about mission and purpose ... More
3 years 1 month ago
Really appreciate this thread and concur that moving to a more entrepreneurial, direct, less-layered, simple 'get work done' focus could reframe how we think about supporting or engaging the people th... More
3 years 1 month ago
I appreciate this segment of discussion and would only add that ensuring managers (maybe even this role defined with this word does not have a place in the organization of the future) are responsible ... More
3 years 1 month ago
From a different lens, I am a consultant that is pursuing it as a strategy by which to transform organizational performance in client partnerships. Likely not in those where I enter thru HR unless t... More
3 years 1 month ago
Two things caught my attention about this hack (other than the title of course): 1. "(HR function/peson/dept) unnaturally displaces responsibility for developing people from managers to bureaucrats.... More
3 years 1 month ago
Hi All! My apology for not yet commenting and adding to this robust discussion! I will be commenting on Thursday. Thank you for understanding around travel and holiday time in the US. I am honored to ... More
3 years 1 month ago
Hi All! My apology for not yet commenting and adding to this robust discussion! I will be commenting on Thursday. Thank you for understanding around travel and holiday time in the US. I am honored to ... More
3 years 1 month ago
Hi All! My apology for not yet commenting and adding to this robust discussion! I will be commenting on Thursday. Thank you for understanding around travel and holiday time in the US. I am honored to ... More
3 years 1 month ago
It would be great to hear examples of how work has been/could be designed around people (vs. processes/systems/archaic methods), with the design part also by those same people so that we allow for own... More
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Identify the value that each human brings to a role or function through an individualized approach. To truly value humans at the individual level as asset to organization.
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Every organization has a mission and usually a purpose. However, the extent to which every organization ‘lives’ or connects that mission is variable. While the youngest generation at work (GenY) notes having a purposeful job or doing purposeful work as a top priority across research studies,  all employees seek...

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Short-term: move measure of value that each human brings to a role or function, to significantly more objective and individualized levels. From the point of hire on:

1. Placement: Objective talent selection through scientific assessments, self-assessments and consistent development reviews to ensure talent to role and talent to...

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We must have objective measures for being adaptable and the things that drive adaptability and how those translate to the business mission, bottom line and customer outcomes.

From my experience HR has lacked objective metrics when it comes to what works and what does not when change is required, when...

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We cannot advance adaptably with effectiveness and stakeholder support using the language and words we have always been using, many of which were adopted from the successful structuring of the military. 

Old world barrier words to becoming adaptable: Hierarchy, Recruits/Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Regulation, Structure, Compliance, Competency, 

Better, but still not...

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Research demonstrates that by bringing the feminine to organizational lens of leadership, along with the well-established masculine, we will create, sustain and encourage more adaptable organizational cultures. Feminine qualities are associated with good leadership qualities: Dependable and Reasonable, Long-term oriented, Collaborative, Adaptable, Flexible, Patient, Loving, Caring and Kind. The study...

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"When we judge a new idea based on the paradigm of the old idea, we end up not seeing the potential in the new idea. We need to get better at recognizing ideas in front of us. Am I clinging to a bias or paradigm of the old,...

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Organizational change efforts (formally since the late 1980's and early 1990's) intially were designed to implement changes into organizations from a top-down approach therefore reinforcing a key barrier to adabtability: hierarchy-based and senior manager/sponsor lead approaches to change. Company cultures developed based on this expected and designed flow of organizational...