ODN Presentation

I had the privilege to present at the January meeting of the St. Louis Organization Development Network (ODN) with my friend and client, Justin Woodard, CEO of Woodard Cleaning & Restoration. Our topic was People Can’t Align to a Strategy…

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Posted: Feb 07 2019
Tags: alignment, culture, strategy
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Employees Can’t Align to a Strategy They Don’t Understand

“I used to think you guys were Stupid” This was the comment of a 30+ year employee at one of our client’s plants. It wasn’t until he heard the company’s strategy explained that he realized that what he was being…

2 questions to help you calm your organization’s monkey mind

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences Our current work environments seem to be on a trajectory of greater and greater distraction with shifting priorities and an explosion of goals,…

Are You Ready For Strategic Planning: Part 3 – What is your Vision?

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll We’ve been interviewing C-suite leaders for a white paper on strategy execution. Some of those leaders have…

Are You Ready for Your Strategic Planning?: Part 1 – Know Your Customer

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” Sam Walton How well you know your “one boss” – your customers –…

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Posted: Jul 07 2016
Tags: alignment, Customer Value, leadership, Strategic Planning
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Smart Business – “Animal Instincts”

In this article we once again talk about culture and the important role it plays in how we feel about our work environment. A colleague of mine recalls the time he switched jobs and found himself having a tough time…

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Posted: Jan 03 2012
Tags: alignment, business, corporate, leader
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Life’s Curveballs and Convergences

Andy appeared on the live talk radio and webstream show “Circles of Change with Dr. Zara Larsen: Where Your Path is Created by Walking on It”. In the podcast where they discussed our work at Dialect and recently released book Uncommon Sense. It’s called Life’s Curveballs and Convergences.

Life’s Curveballs and Convergences

Andy appeared on the live talk radio and webstream show “Circles of Change with Dr. Zara Larsen: Where Your Path is Created by Walking on It”. In the podcast where they discussed our work at Dialect and recently released book Uncommon Sense. It’s called Life’s Curveballs and Convergences.

Culture: What behavior is important?

This issue addresses the culture component of Dialect’s alignment model. Our last edition of Sync discussed organizational vision. In this edition we discuss the culture component of our alignment model. How do we protect the people? This was the first…

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Posted: Nov 01 2007
Tags: alignment, behavior, core values, values
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Uncommon Sense: Going Beyond the Golden Rule

This is Dialect’s first on-line publication, Uncommon Sense: Going Beyond the Golden Rule. This manifesto, published by ChangeThis.com tells a story using the Dialect model within the context of a bank acquisition. “Jack is the CEO and President of America’s…

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Posted: Oct 03 2007
Tags: alignment, golden rule, sync, Uncommon Sense
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