Emotions Are Contagious
Tony Schwartz wrote a fantastic post on HBR today on Ten principles to live by in today's complex world. All of them are spot on, so read the whole thing, but I'll focus on one of them that jumped out at me: Emotions are ...
Category: Individual Development
More Problems With Control
I am not a fan of the idea of control. I actually hadn't given it too much thought prior to a few years ago when the theme of "clarity over control" emerged as a part of the social media revolution. My post back in Febru ...
Your Leadership Business Model
The economic news these days does not induce a lot of smiles. I was at a presentation last night given to members of one of the associations I manage about economic indicators, and the analyst joked at the beginning of h ...
Brain Development and Complexity
I am a big fan of Robert Kegan. He is a specialist at Harvard in adult development, and I first started following his work during my graduate program in Organization Development at Georgetown back in 2001. One of the mai ...
Playing Small Doesn’t Serve You or the World
I had the great misfortune to be doing my own presentation at Great Ideas while the Ignite sessions were going on, which is too bad, because I heard they were awesome. Fortunately, they were recorded on video so I've bee ...
Playing Small Doesn't Serve You or the World
I had the great misfortune to be doing my own presentation at Great Ideas while the Ignite sessions were going on, which is too bad, because I heard they were awesome. Fortunately, they were recorded on video so I've ...
The Fear of Pushing Ourselves
Jim Collins is probably best known for his Good to Great book, but I remember seeing a video of him speaking years ago talking about career development. He drew a classic three-circle venn diagram. Two of the circles wer ...
Reflections on #ASAE10: Passion Matters
The opening round of ASAE recap blog posts have been a bit of a downer. This does not surprise me given the conversations I was having with friends of colleagues towards the end. For one reason or another, the meeting ju ...
Fear Sucks
Permit me to sound like a keynote speaker for a minute... If there's ONE THING you remember from this blog post it's this: (dramatic pause...) the reason your organization sucks, is fear. I write about a lot of t ...
Their Problem is Usually Your Problem
We spend a lot of time wringing our hands over the problems that "others" have in our lives. The Board isn't strategic enough. The boss doesn't understand me. That department over there is not ...