Practice Fields: Powerful Tools for Enhancing Performance
For individuals and teams who want to master complex skills, practice is essential. Practice enables athletes to excel at sports, musicians to master music, and actors to enchant audiences. Practice works by allowing people to use skills in multiple low-risk experiences in special settings known as “practice fields.” Here demands for superb performance, credibility, and confidence are temporarily suspended, exploratory inquiry is allowed, and “not … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Cliff Bolster, Jennifer M. Kemeny, Jimmy Carter, Marilyn Paul, Richard H. Gregg | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Moving from Blame to Accountability (.pdf)
When something goes wrong in an organization, the first question that is often posed is, “Whose fault is it?”
Blaming seems to be a natural reflex in many organizations. Even those individuals who wish to learn from mistakes fall into naming culprits. Once we figure out who’s at fault, we then try to find out what is wrong with the supposed offenders. Only when we … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Marilyn Paul | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior