Resources
Carl L. Harshman & Associates is dedicated to sharing information and learning with the larger community of organizations, leaders, OD and HR Professionals, Consultants, and Students.
The resources in this section include printed materials, internet links, and information on strategic partners. If you have need of something we don't have or have something you think we need, let us know. We'll consider adding it to the Resource pages.
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Excerpts, Short Stories, and Allegories
Felix the Frog: On Flying (A Parable about Performance Improvement)
What If Our Organizations Won't Fly? (An allegory on what happens when you break fundamental laws)
Articles (Articles/papers we have written; others we borrowed. More to follow. Click on title for a PDF version)
"Strengths Based Leadership" - A Synopsis and Author(s) Interview
"Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail" - A summary of John Kotter's book (2002)
"14 Reasons Why Change Efforts Fail" - A list of the possibilities (2003)
"The Trail to Transformation: The Electric Boat Story" - A case study (2007)
"The 4F Factors: Are You Qualified?" - A perspective (2002)
"The Legend of Louie" - A true story about comunication for change (2001)
"Telltale Signs of Poor Communication" - A list (2003)
"The Four Commandments" - A perspective on people (1999)
"What Strong Teams Have in Common" - Gallup Management Journal (2009)
"Lessons for Leaders-The Donkey Allegory" - Adapted from an Internet document
"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words and . . . " - An example of team innovation (2003)
"Who's Watching the Watchers?" - An ethics commentary (2002)
"The Hidden Costs of Leadership" - A perspective paper (2006)
"The Whole May Be Less Than the Sum of Its Parts . . . " - A fable on not working together (2000)
"Mission - Vision - Values: Working Definitions" - A consulting paper (2006)
"Consensus Decision Making" - A consulting paper (1998)
"At the Boundary: A Leader's Dilemma" - A leadership topic article (2000)
"Adapting to Change or Vice Versa" - A Personal Perspective (2001)
"Anger Management Class for Ron Artest?" - We have another proposal . . . (2005)
"The Notion of Success" - From a Harvard Business Review article (2004)
"Benchmarking: We Only Want to be as Good as They Are" - An Institute article (2008)
"Killing the Grass: Pathways to Corporate Excellence" - A metaphor for excellence (2009)
Links
jobEQ (Emotional Intelligence and online assessment tools)
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
Center for Effective Organizations (CEO - University of Southern California)
Strategic Partners
Institute for Work Attitude & Motivation (North American home of the iWAM Performance Test)
Leadership Dialogues (Ellen F. Moran, Ph.D.)
W. Patrick Dolan (Consultant Extrordinairre - Changing America's Education)