Perhaps it has never been harder to lead and support others than it is in today’s social and economic climate, which makes it difficult at best, and impossible a great deal of the time, to do many of the things we believe are most important to our work. Read more →
In graduate school, those of us studying organizations were introduced to a simulation game called “Planners and Operators,” and, since that time, I’ve observed several different groups engage in this activity over the years. It’s used with a group of some size (at least a dozen participants), who are divided into two sub-groups: Planners and Operators. Each group is sent to a different room and told that they each have a distinct goal to accomplish. The Planners are given an envelope containing puzzle pieces which can be successfully assembled by the group after a few tries. The puzzle is made of several geometric shapes, which, when correctly assembled, form a square. Read more →
