For many years, organization development (OD) interventions focused mainly on incremental, localized adjustments, tweaks to the functioning of the organization.

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For all the talk about leadership in safety these days, just what are leadership’s core competencies?

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The businesses I work with are all re-thinking their strategies to one extent or another. 

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Here are responses we received to the blog on former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s management style and Apple’s corporate culture, both which fly in the face of calls for empathetic leaders and empowering cultures put forth in recent years by numerous safety and health organizational behavior consultants…

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The first-shift guys tell you they work together as a team. They are the best shift in every way. And they always clean up and set up for second shift.
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When folks are brought together around some common task or set of tasks, their earliest experiences “set the tone” for the team. When team members develop the positive attitude that they can succeed, they are more likely to do so.
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Something interesting happens to folks when they make it to the top in business. They become remarkably prone to lose touch with the people down the ladder – the people who do the work and make or break the company.

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What if a company is characteristically cautious and slow to make a decision, and does not reward innovative risk-taking, while the market is moving fast and increasingly rewarding agility? What if the choice is to change or die?

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Accountability should be something we naturally expect of ourselves as well as others, and positively reinforce when we see it.

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Researchers have discovered some very interesting things about the positive emotions and their value.
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