Parrallel?

I enjoy reading and I love to hear what other's think and feel. I also like to challenge others to grow and think outside their normal realm or comfort zone. I honestly believe this "stretching" does help in the growth process. Consider the following quote from recent Gallup Management Journal .

"Rule 5: Improvement in local HumanSigma performance requires deliberate and active intervention through attention to a combination of transactional and transformational intervention activities. Measurement by itself is never enough to improve performance. Creating organizational change is hard work and requires active and disciplined intervention.

Our work has found that few companies apply the full range of intervention activities required to generate real and sustainable change. Transactional activities, such as action planning, training, and other aggressive interventions, are cyclical interventions that tend to be topical and short-term in focus and to recur regularly. They are designed to help your company do what it already does -- but do it better. Transformational activities, on the other hand, are structural interventions that focus on how companies select employees, select and promote managers, pay and evaluate employees, do succession planning, and recognize and develop employees. Transformational activities focus on creating an organizational infrastructure that supports HumanSigma. They are designed to help your company come up with new ways to do things."

While Human Sigma may not be totally relevant to the ways in which a Government Org is run, or even should be run, nonetheless I believe certain principles are relevant and worth consideration. There's no need to reinvent the wheel if it already exists....the value is in getting the wheel rolling (read implementation).

TAFN