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

Part II The Yin Yang of Being with other Humans Years before Louis Pasteur came along and proved to the world the existence of germs; Ignaz Semmelweis was trying to convince health care providers to wash their hands. Semmelweis was trying to reduce mortality rates in the obstetrical clinic he directed and he strongly believed   [Read More…]

Part I The Final Frontier Social beings. We share many types of interactions with others, especially today. We talk on the phone, some still actually write letters to one another, we have myriad “in person” exchanges, formal and informal, functional and dysfunctional. For many of us, e-mailing for personal and professional reasons is a standard,   [Read More…]

Once again, it is Freak Flag Friday.  Have a good one.  This week we celebrate with an actual flag…thanks to Eric J. Andersen.

…just because we can.

I try to celebrate the Freak Flag on Fridays, and it recently occurred to me that maybe someone could design an actual flag…and then it occurred to me that maybe others could share quotes, stories, drawings, pictures, etc. that I could post on Fridays.  As I have made more noise about Freak Flag Friday and   [Read More…]

This week I am recommending The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Bob Sutton.  It is a fun, easy read, but it packs a punch with an important and timely message connected to a lot of really good research.  I recommend you read anything that comes from Bob   [Read More…]

Last week, this was my office.

A great deal of my work revolves around issues of diversity and inclusion, and much of that work is about better understanding the raw value of difference and about being more intentional with our behaviors, processes and systems so that we do not waste, overlook or limit the potential and the unique contributions of those   [Read More…]

  Mary Schaefer and I found each other on…(wait for it)…Twitter. Where else do people find each other these days!!?? Mary and I orbit around some of the same ideas and hopes for the world of work. On her Twitter profile she describes herself as an “HR/OD Consultant, Fierce Idealist, Farmer’s Daughter,” who Tweets about   [Read More…]