Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

Have a great weekend. I wanted to share a few things that I was happy to stumble across this weekend.  Below are the excerpts of three interesting and insightful blog posts, click on the title to go the entire post.  Enjoy and share.  And be good to each other. Homophily: #1 innovation enemy from Clattering   [Read More…]

It is Friday.  And on Fridays I try to promote and celebrate the flying of the Freak Flag.  The Freak Flag represents a lot of things.  Here are a few… It is the celebration of coloring outside the lines. It is for wearing socks that say something. It is the celebration of chair dancing, because   [Read More…]

I have just read yet another piece about “empowerment” and I am throwing the bullshit flag.  Enough. You know who can empower me?  I can.  You know what you can do?  You can get the hell out of my way.  To be very honest, I find the idea of empowerment as a management practice offensive   [Read More…]

I hope that you like my new digs as much as I do.  I have been online blogging and babbling for nearly four years and it felt like it was time for an upgrade.  Welcome.  Please subscribe to updates.  Bookmark it.  Tell all your friends and enemies where to find me.  I am going to   [Read More…]

Please join us for an interactive exploration of personal truth, community, and the power of story. Saturday, September 11th 2010 UNO – CPACS building, Creative Commons 1:00pm – 4:30pm registration is required – group size limited part story-telling part listening part creating the future Each of us has a story to tell and each of   [Read More…]

This is going to seem like it is self-serving.  I tried to convince myself not to write it because I knew that it would appear that way, but the topic will not leave me alone.  I have been travelling the interwebs and have come across more HR events dismissive of issues of diversity and inclusion.   [Read More…]

Todays word of the day…equifinality. We should probably find an easier way to say what this word means, but it is an important idea. I find myself talking more and more about cognitive diversity (differences in thinking styles) all the time and have started writing about it a bit as well.  I think it is   [Read More…]

Okay.  Apparently this is going to be an annual thing.  It is once again time for me ask for your support as I try to get on the SXSW agenda.  I had a lot of really good comments and support last year, but did not make the cut.  They get a lot of submissions…2346 of   [Read More…]

Just a quick post to share a bit of information… I did an interview with Stephanie Thomas Ph. D. (The Proactive Employer) and the audio file is available online here. Also have been invited to join a couple of additional conference agenda, will be at the Iowa Mosaic Diversity Conference on October 18th and at   [Read More…]

Words matter.  A lot. “Oh we are inclusive Joe, we are all over the diversity thing.” This is a line from a conversation that I had recently with a business leader and a good example of asking the wrong question and / or not having an actual logical foundation to support our language.  Inclusion is   [Read More…]