Trauma Free Renewal
I am trying to get through Gary Hamel's The Future of Management because (a) it is totally awesome and (b) I have a long list of other books I want to read. So I'm going to start some of my reflections on the fir ...
Category: Leadership
Authority, Leadership, and Truth
I like to push back when people define leadership primarily in terms of the people at the top of the organizational chart. That's authority, not leadership. I define leadership in terms of a system capacity, and I ex ...
Authenticity and Risk
I've been thinking a lot about "truth" lately. It started with the article I wrote and the session I did at the CalSAE conference in April. But a couple of weeks ago, inspired by Maddie's post, I challe ...
Evolving Organizational Identity
Like Joe Gerstandt, I can't let the exquisite post by Maddie Grant about the paradox of identity go unremarked. Maddie was reflecting initially on the paradoxes of identity in the "digital age," where we cr ...
Leadership in Threes
I have been thinking about all the great points my friends made about leadership as part of the Top 3 meme (see all responses in this post). As is my way, I am trying to pull some themes out of what was written, which is ...
Leadership Top 3 Meme in its Entirety
I started the "Leadership Top 3" meme a few weeks ago (quite accidentally) and was excited to see eleven TWELVE THIRTEEN people post responses! It's a LOT of good stuff, and I'm working on some synthesi ...
Telling the Truth
On Tuesday I did two sessions at the CalSAE conference, one of which was titled "Truth-Telling in Challenging Times (and Challenging Situations). It was the first time I did this session, and I was happy with how it ...
Is it happening to "them" or to you?
Did you read Jeff De Cagna's article in Associations Now? It's a good one. There was some interesting blog banter not too long ago about revolution versus incremental, and we all know Jeff's on the revolution ...
Is it happening to “them” or to you?
Did you read Jeff De Cagna's article in Associations Now? It's a good one. There was some interesting blog banter not too long ago about revolution versus incremental, and we all know Jeff's on the revolution ...
I started a Meme
Without intending it, I seemed to have started a meme with my "Top 3" post last week on leadership. I wrote it thinking about what advice I would be giving someone early in their career so they could focus on d ...