March 10, 2025
Good morning! Spring-like weather! The Feast of Patrick is in one week.
- If you are not regularly using disposable diapers, take a guess at what one costs nowadays at a discount warehouse.
- Young Moms and Dads already know.
- They range between 23 cents and 34 cents each.
- Here’s a thought: The most challenging and least likely response to get from any of the artificial intelligence platforms is, I don’t know.
- Or, I’m not sure.
- Maybe it will function entirely as a human.
- I thought I was cured, but the Severe Degenerative Spinal Stenosis I contracted last year at about this same time has returned with a vengeance.
- This is a disease so painful there is insufficient vocabulary to describe it.
- As a result, these Musings are about as long as I’m able to make them for now.
- I will make it up to you.
- M.R.I. later today and then hopefully some resolution.
- Ouch!
- We have asked thousands of mid level executives from around the world the same simple question:
- “Who is responsible for culture in your organization?”
- “Everyone!”
- We then ask a follow-up: “If everyone is responsible for culture in your organization, what do you DO to manage it?”
- The most common answers are uninspiring; “keep an open-door policy… provide good performance reviews… check in with employees…”
- “Our research revealed that mid level leaders often feel they need to endorse cultural norms rather than enrich them…
- …by which we mean supporting expressions of cultural norms and values as they arise in smaller teams.
- We found that the most successful mid level leaders find ways to link the culture of their organization — its official set of values —
- with the culture that plays out in the narrower and vibrant daily patterns of interaction. (Harrison, Marquette University, 2024)
- Sounds like good leadership to me!
- Who will you inspire today?
