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OUCH! Interaction Model – Gesture and Response
left and right loops of the interaction model below. This post jumps a little deeper into the actual interaction itself and focuses on...
Mar 1, 2016


OUCH! Interaction Model – The Right Loop
last post looked at the left loop of the interaction model below. The left loop is typically the easiest to observe in terms of what goes...
Feb 26, 2016


OUCH! Interaction Model – The Left Loop
It is what we use to understand our own organizational experience as well as how we do our own consulting work. In the next few posts...
Feb 23, 2016


OUCH! What’s the Purpose of This?
I had interacted with lots of people on this topic plus wrote a number of blog posts with this focus and I realized that the interactions...
Feb 19, 2016


OUCH! The Misfit Between Theory and Experience in Organizations – Introduction
As an excited and enthusiastic newly promoted production supervisor I arrived at my very first budget meeting. It was late in the year...
Feb 16, 2016


Some Final Thoughts
Maybe you were able to laugh at your team a little too, as you recognized behavior that described it pretty well. All teams experience...
Feb 8, 2016
Reason 10 – Ideas to Try
They Involve You in Team Building Exercises Some key questions to ask yourself and your team. Basic, really important ones: Will this...
Feb 4, 2016


Reason 10
It’s inescapable. Sooner or later someone will inflict a team building exercise on your team. You will survive a mythical plane crash in...
Feb 1, 2016
Reason 9 – Ideas to Try
They Make You Work with People You Can’t Stand Some key questions to ask yourself and your team. Basic, really important ones: Have we...
Jan 28, 2016


Reason 9
Of all the reasons to hate work teams this is one of the most obvious and the least talked about. We all have people we can’t stand. How...
Jan 25, 2016


Reason 8 – Ideas to Try
They Take Months to Make a Decision That Could Have Been Made in Minutes Some key questions to ask yourself and your team. Basic, really...
Jan 22, 2016


Reason 8
This fate awaits any team that is bound and determined to apply every team tool and toy ever invented. Fresh from the latest team...
Jan 18, 2016
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