Category Archives: Alignment

Alignment

Lack of alignment around goals, or the deeper challenges of disagreements about priorities, the desired future, beliefs about what is possible, let alone worthwhile, sometimes fueled by egoic, dysfunctional, win-lose thinking, all limit success. When stakes are high, this lack of alignment can create quite a mess.  Though recovery from such setbacks isn't usually a problem, if there's a preventable Continue Reading ...

Sailing the Seven C’s of Collaborative Business Relationships

By Daniel Robin To some folks, the phrase "business relationships" is effectively an oxymoron. The more pressure to perform, the more likely there’ll be a bump in the road to collaboration that sends things flying out of control. Hopefully the "bump" isn’t the tip of an iceberg, but just a bit of rough water that will soon pass. Collaboration at work isn’t required, it’s just a lot more Continue Reading ...

The Dance of Alignment: Do You Fit Your Workplace?

By Daniel Robin  In the early 1980’s I worked for a company that had begun to noticeably mutate. It had been growing like a weed – 400% in one year – but had yet to evolve (growing large isn’t the same as growing up). Those of us holding out for the company’s metamorphosis realized that it would take perhaps 20 or 30 years to materialize, so instead, we dematerialized; I’ve been consulting Continue Reading ...