Category Archives: Leadership
Leadership and the Front Line Workforce: Lessons from the Targets of Change podcast by John Bates with guest Gilmore Crosby
From Live Like a Leader podcaster John Bates Listen here! https://livelikealeader.show/episodes/episode-142-gilmore-crosby Episode Summary Today I have a fun conversation with Gil Crosby, an organizational development pro who’s been in the field since 1984, a professor at the Leadership Institute of … Continue reading
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Generation BS*
*Any generation that complains about young people First there were the boomers, then generation X and the millennials. then Z, Alpha and Beta. And so was born an army of “experts” on how to relate to each of these generational … Continue reading
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Tagged #GenerationZ, Authority, Leadership, life, OD
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Leadership and the Frontline Workforce: Lessons from the Targets of Change
My latest and greatest book is out, in which frontline workers tell true stories of Lewinian change from “us versus them” to high performance and morale! Listen in here as AI team pf podcasters briefly review it: https://traffic.libsyn.com/59ce511e-0f15-4965-ae74-09993330565a/LFW_AI_Podcast.mp3 This book … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Culture Change, Gilmore Crosby, Leadership, Lewin, Organization Development
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Lewinian OD is simple, and is what the world needs now
I wrote this in response to a colleague. Something close to Lewin’s original change work inside and outside of organizations definitely still exists. We operate with small groups of consultants, if that is what your question meant, sometimes alone, sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management, Culture Change, Leadership, Lewin, Organization Development, T-Groups
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View from a Target – An electrician and union steward meets applied behavioral science!
This post is the second of several that consist of transcripts of conversations with frontline workers, inspired by the audio histories complied by the late Studs Terkel. My intention here is to let the workers speak for themselves. You can … Continue reading
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A T-group participant’s experience in their own words
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Tagged #LEWIN, OD, Organization Development, T-Groups
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Lewin in a Nutshell: A Scientific Method of Change
My latest podcast! Everything you need to know about change! https://ascienceofchange.libsyn.com/lewin-in-a-nutshell-a-scientific-method-of-change
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In Defense of Defensiveness
An excerpt from Spiritualty and Emotional Intelligence, 2021, by Gilmore Crosby …Defensiveness has been so demonized in the modern corporation that most people put a lot of effortinto trying to pretend they are not feeling or being defensive, and “You’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Emotional Intelligence, EQ, Leadership
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The Interpersonal Gap – A podcast
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Micro-managing
I just wrote this on LinkedIn as a response to a post that stated, “A micro-manager is someone you pay to watch your top talent walk away.” My response: Allow me to charge this windmill. It’s easy, fun, and popular … Continue reading
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