It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our dear friend and business partner, Lou Tice, the Chairman and co-Founder of The Pacific Institute. We have been using Lou’s teaching for many years with clients across the country and around the world. As Lou often acknowledged, this information was [...]
Posted on April 4, 2012 in Announcement
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Perhaps you have seen this already. But if you have not, please take a look at the New York Times opinion piece from Greg Smith, former (as of the publishing of the article) senior executive director with Goldman Sachs. There isn’t much to add to his laments about the dearth of integrity and leadership at [...]
Posted on March 23, 2012 in Articles
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No, that is not a typo in the title. “Method” is the name of the young soap and hygiene product company with a unique tale on how it developed it’s constructive culture. As it grew beyond a size where everyone knew everyone else and communication was much easier, the leadership needed to figure out how [...]
Posted on January 31, 2012 in Articles
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Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and independent researcher Steven Kramer explore the connection between work satisfaction and work productivity in this brief article from the New York Times. The duo are also the authors of the book “The Progress Principle”, released in July 2011. The article spells out what is at the heart of [...]
This article about decision fatigue discloses fascinating research about what impacts the decisions we make everyday and how our decision making process can be much more work than we recognize. It is a must read for every leader interested in improving their effectiveness. Click here to view the article.
This is a very interesting article from the New York Times that shows the extent to which medical schools now recognize the impact on hospital culture and performance by teams that do not work cohesively. It is also encouraging to see these schools taking proactive steps to positively impact the hospital culture of the future by [...]
Do we get into debates, discussions, and arguments just to find the truth of the matter? Or could there be a more insidious side of our process of reasoning through an issue? New research by Hugo Mercier (pictured below) and others is showing that there may be an evolutionary advantage to highly-developed reasoning abilities. Think [...]
The Passing of Lou Tice
The Goldman Sachs Resignation Letter
Learning from the Method Method
