Take Your Leadership to the Next Level
How do we take our leadership to the next level? And what is the next level? How do we do that for ourselves and how do we develop leadership in others as a leader and coach of leaders? These questions are challenges for the whole field of “leadership development,”...
Learning in the Mud: How Everyday Breakdowns are Raw Material for Breakthroughs
One of the skills available to us as leaders and coaches is to bring our world into a new focus in order to see new opportunities. If we take a step back and look at how we see our world we find that every individual is a unique kind of “observer” of the world. ...
Elevating Organizational Performance – New Thinking for New Results
Organizations exist to take actions to produce valuable outcomes, and the concern for performance is fundamental and inescapable for their members and their leaders. They must meet competitive challenges, adjust to changing world markets, integrate needed innovations,...
Growing a Culture of Value Creation
If we are going to grow a value-creating culture, we need to see that organizations exist to create value, not just to get things done. If what we are doing isn’t valuable, then it likely is waste. As leaders, we want to help our teams, organizations, and...
Optimizing High-Performance Teams to Meet Business Challenges
Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, identifies only a small number of companies that create an extraordinary level of success compared to the mainstream. It’s possible but rare. There is an even bigger challenge for teams and organizations – survival. The business...
Blending Operational Excellence with Innovation
Focusing on excellence in operational performance is the primary focus of most organizations, but it is a different area of skill, type of conversation, mood and energy than innovation conversations. These two skill areas overlap more easily when the operational work...
Will Americans Ever Realize That a Good Life is More Important than Money?
Article taken from YES! Magazine, written by David Korten | August 13, 2012 We want to share this conversation with you because we think it is clearly important for our future! Let us know what you think. The political debate in the United States and Europe has...
Congratulations, You Have Been Promoted to a Leader! You Are Now a Beginner.
From guest blogger, Craig Miller. Most managers I meet (and I include myself) were promoted not because we had management talent, but because we were better than the rest at performing tasks and getting things done. The brutal moment in a manager’s life is when we...
Reawakening the Citizen
As a citizen of our community, we must look deeper than solutions, we must look in ourselves for the interpretations, values, and habits that are part of the challenges.
Daring Not to Know
Although we do not yet know the solutions to the major problems of our age, we can begin to expand the space of possibilities for addressing them.