Category: Organizational Culture

Sixth Practice: On Collaborating

For more con­text on this post­ing, please see: The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship Eight Lead­er­ship Prac­tices First Prac­tice: Know­ing Your Lead­er­ship Edge Sec­ond Prac­tice: Devel­op­ing Your Com­fort Lev­el with Feed­back Third Prac­tice: Car­ing for Self Fourth Prac­tice: Lead­er­ship and Influ­ence Fifth Prac­tice: Dis­cussing Undis­cuss­ables Sev­enth Prac­tice: Per­son­al Integri­ty Eighth Prac­tice: Spir­i­tu­al Per­spec­tive Col­lab­o­rat­ing is the name I give… Con­tin­ue read­ing Sixth Prac­tice: On Collaborating

Re-Visioning Visionary Leaders

The term “vision­ary leader” usu­al­ly refers to a gift­ed per­son who sees far­ther into the future, inspires us with rich pos­si­bil­i­ties, and acts to tan­gi­bly real­ize a com­pelling dream. The gift this per­son pos­sess­es can be in any dis­ci­pline, from tech­nol­o­gy, sci­ences, med­i­cine, music, to pol­i­tics or social change.  Okay. So far so good. AND,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Re-Vision­ing Vision­ary Leaders

Rejecting the Default Culture

Busi­ness cul­ture is an accre­tion of lay­ers, just like the crust of the earth. While the sur­face often rep­re­sents the cur­rent moment in his­to­ry, dig a lit­tle and you are like­ly to find some­thing less sophis­ti­cat­ed, empow­er­ing, and inclu­sive. A “default” busi­ness cul­ture — mean­ing what we revert to giv­en no oth­er input or direc­tion… Con­tin­ue read­ing Reject­ing the Default Culture

Addressing ‑2: What to Do When Team Trust is All But Gone

In my last post I offered a sur­vey on trust lev­els to help groups deter­mine how they are fair­ing as a team and what steps might help improve inter­nal rela­tion­ships. Of the lev­els described in the sur­vey, from +2, “Ide­al,” to ‑2 “Dis­in­te­grat­ing,” it is the ‑2 lev­el that rep­re­sents the most sen­si­tive chal­lenge. What… Con­tin­ue read­ing Address­ing ‑2: What to Do When Team Trust is All But Gone