Several weeks ago, Eric Lanke, who is the Executive Director of the National Fluid Power Association, reached out to me with an idea to start a dialogue. Like me, Eric is a Generation X leader who has noticed that most o ...
Freedom is quite obviously a good thing. Everyone wants it, and I think most would argue that we all deserve it. We deserve to be free.The most common story about freedom is of an oppressed group struggling for, and fina ...
Good leadership (wherever you are in the organization) requires a greater level of awareness. Awareness of yourself, of the situation, of the history, of the dynamics, of the trends, of the organization's capacity, e ...
The October HBR is chock full of "myth of control" articles. I mentioned a small one yesterday, but the lead article by Scott Cook of Intuit (maker of Quicken) is all about "harnessing the masses" by ...
Given the push back I get when I suggest thinking about why we keep salary figures secret, I wonder what the reaction will be to the piece in the October Harvard Business Review where Dave Balter, CEO of BzzAgent describ ...
I facilitated some strategy work with a client two weekends ago, and it was hard work. I pushed them hard on identifying the missing "middle level thinking" in their strategy. They had some success, and even wi ...
If you're flipping through the most recent Associations Now and end up skipping the article titled "Bring in the Jester" because you think it's a fluff piece about having more fun in the workplace, PLEA ...
I am ashamed at how long it has been since I covered an interesting article in Harvard Business Review. In fact, I'm not going to look back to see how long it has been! But on a plane ride I managed to read the Septe ...
Thanks to Joe Gerstandt for pointing me to an article by Otto Scharmer on the "Blind Spot" of leadership. Honestly, I get mixed feelings when I read articles like this. At one level I am very excited by the dep ...
Hugh MacLeod wrote an interesting post about complexity, citing complexity as the difference between success and failure. It's simple to fail, but you must manage complexity to succeed. He applies this theory to organiza ...
