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

Good reading from the interwebs / blogosphere…from my friends, for my friends… Enjoy! I regularly plug what Jamie Notter has to say and I am developing a professional crush on him I guess…he has just put up another good post: The People Side of Business (where we still have a great deal of work to   [Read More…]

Just recently introduced to a very cool website on workplace bullying, No Job Is Worth This.  Here is one of their videos (long, but good):

Diversity. As issues of diversity and inclusion are becoming increasingly business critical, there remains a great deal of evidence that these are still largely misunderstood issues. On a very basic level, there does not seem to be a good understanding of what diversity is and what its value is for a group, organization or community.   [Read More…]

Diversity.  Still quite possibly the most poorly understood, misunderstood dyanmic in the world of business (and education, politics, human resources, leadership development, etc.). Diversity means difference.  Difference shows up in many different forms…but before we even take a look at that, I think having a better understanding of what difference actually means can be helpful.    [Read More…]

Some interesting articles and blog posts that you might want to check out… The Power of False Remembering (hat tip to John Sumser) When people are fooled into thinking they made a different choice than the one they actually made, and then articulate their “reasons” for this supposed choice, they then may actually change their   [Read More…]

On the road again! On the way to South Dakota to give a keynote for the 2009 South Dakota SHRM Conference. Generation X: Magic (or Mayhem) in the Middle See you on the flip side.  Be good to each other.

Do You Work With Humans? “This Rocks.” -workshop attendee March 2009 (Des Moines, IA) “Amazing stuff. Amazing research. This changes everything.” -workshop attendee March 2009 (Richmond, VA)   Working with Humans has been, over the past three years, my most popular workshop and I have now delivered some version of it in about 25 different   [Read More…]

“This Rocks.” -workshop attendee March 2009 (Des Moines, IA) “Amazing stuff.  Amazing research.  This changes everything.” -workshop attendee March 2009 (Richmond, VA)   Working with Humans has been, over the past three years, my most popular workshop and I have now delivered some version of it in about 25 different cities. It has been a   [Read More…]