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Last weekend I attended the Behavior Change for a Sustainable World conference sponsored by the Association for Behavior Analysis International. The sessions delivered during this 3-day event were...

As the NCAA delivered its sentence to Penn State University and its football team last week, it’s natural to think about those who will be most affected by the consequences; the players and their new...

I thought patience was supposed to come with age. However, the older I get the more impatient I have become and every day I see or read something that drives me crazy. The latest was a short article...

Are you frustrated when desired change doesn’t stick?  Creating sustainable and accelerated change requires a daily focus.  How then do we connect our todays with the end of the year?...

I’m amazed at the epidemic of firefighting that has taken over organizations. Stretched organizations are asking people to do more with less and to maintain or grow the business, yet these same...

Here's a recent question that came to me via Twitter Question:   [SIC] What is your take on this quote from the book Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken...

Let’s start with what you have. If leaders were to use baseball-style measures of success, most would agree that batting 1000 is unheard of, and batting 500 is also an unlikely target. Most would...

Sales people spend more time with their customers than their bosses.  If we leave customer behavior out of the equation, we are ignoring reality.  This missing element contributes to the...

Much of ADI’s consulting work focuses on designing strategies to accelerate and sustain good practice throughout the workplace. We strive to help people develop true fluency—the ability to do the...

Who wouldn’t say that meetings suck up hours of potentially productive work time? Let’s face it, there are just too many meetings and most are just too long! For those who feel like their meetings...

In the Congressional hearings on the GSA excesses, several members of Congress expressed outrage about the way GSA executives spent money on meetings – lavish hotels, parties, gourmet meals, etc....

I am passionate about many things, not the least is what we could do in America’s classrooms. The thought occurred to me recently:  How long does it have to fail before someone realizes that the...

It would go against logic to think that companies wouldn’t consider the customer first, especially today. Yet, I was surprised to read in a recent Fast Company article, Do Groupon and LivingSocial Do...

Employees who have a stake in the financial success of their organization are much more focused and engaged in their work and aware of how it impacts the overall success of that organization than...

Watch this! It is a fun video but she is dead on. She presents scientific facts about reinforcement in a clever and very understandable way.  It is worth the time.

WVU Mountaineer play-by-play announcer @TonyCaridi tweeted this morning, “If you won the Mega Millions lottery….what 3 hoop officials would you pay to never work another game?” I thought Tony had hit...

Managing consequences such as incentives and punishment are thorny issues in safety. ADI has long held that monetary bonuses based on injury counts/rates are problematic for a number of reasons...

A colleague, Tyler, asked me the other day during a discussion about the pay for performance bounty escapade, “What is $1000 to a millionaire?” That is like saying to your buddy at the bar, “...