Category: Organizational Culture

What the Hedgehog Knows About Leadership

Please par­don my inat­ten­tion to my blog. I have been writ­ing else­where: a book of 34 short per­son­al med­i­ta­tions side by side with pho­tograp­shs. It will be avail­able as a free down­load here with­in a cou­ple of weeks. If you like, you can lis­ten to me read the fol­low­ing post. This morn­ing I am think­ing about lead­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing What the Hedge­hog Knows About Leadership

At the Water-Line

Hear me read this post. Many years ago I came across a remark­able mod­el, known as the cul­tur­al ice­berg. Devel­oped by Stan­ley Her­man of TRW Sys­tems in 1970, it describes some of the most impor­tant work­place dynam­ics that any of us could ever know about. The top part of the ice­berg rep­re­sents the vis­i­ble, for­mal… Con­tin­ue read­ing At the Water-Line

Dropping Into the Void

Lis­ten to me read this post. This morn­ing I again read the many fine com­ments relat­ed to Chris Bai­ley’s great Novem­ber post, Is This What Lead­er­ship Looks Like? Chris uses the phrase, “depen­den­cy lead­er­ship mod­el” to describe some of our most neg­a­tive cul­tur­al con­di­tion­ing about lead­er­ship. In the depen­den­cy mod­el, the leader makes our deci­sions… Con­tin­ue read­ing Drop­ping Into the Void