Shawn Kent Hayashi

Jonathan, the president of a mid-sized university, invited me to observe one of his advisory board meetings because he said he was “stumped by the team dynamics going on with this group.”  Read More

This past week at an Executive Coaching conference in New York City I met the person at NASA who heads leadership development for rocket scientists. She told me, “The people side of our work is more complex than the technical side of our work. We are all systems engineers. The systems we work in are human systems, which are infinitely more complex than anything else we do.” This means that understanding human interaction is more difficult than being a rocket scientist! Read More

Author of The Why of Work, Dave Ulrich is also a Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability, and talent through leveraging human resources. Read More