Category: Changing the World

Leading Change in a VUCA World

I’ve been think­ing a lot late­ly about the nature of what it takes to cre­ate and respond to mean­ing­ful change these days. Yes­ter­day, I brain­stormed the fol­low­ing after read­ing an arti­cle by John Kot­ter, one of the most respect­ed cul­ture change experts. How would you mod­i­fy what I’ve writ­ten? What would you add? In a VUCA… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­ing Change in a VUCA World

On Emotional Freedom

After I post­ed “Lead­er­ship and Shame” on August 14th, I noticed oth­er relat­ed arti­cles appeared. Samatha S. Hall post­ed “Co-depen­­den­­cy and Rela­tion­ships,” regard­ing the way shame trans­lates into prob­lem­at­ic cop­ing mech­a­nisms. Kate Nass­er pub­lished “Lead­ing & Inspir­ing Through Shame?” about avoid­ing the temp­ta­tion to shame oth­ers as a moti­va­tion­al tech­nique. And Vin­cent Nix shared some… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Emo­tion­al Freedom

The Future of Generative Organizations

It’s often said that orga­ni­za­tions of the future will be flat­ter and less hier­ar­chi­cal, orga­nized as net­works and accord­ing to the prin­ci­ples of self-man­age­­ment. But that can’t hap­pen with­out a fun­da­men­tal shift in per­spec­tive even more basic — from com­pet­i­tive to gen­er­a­tive orga­ni­za­tions. Com­pet­i­tive orga­ni­za­tions are ones that define their edge strate­gi­cal­ly over oth­er orga­ni­za­tions,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Future of Gen­er­a­tive Organizations

Why Talk About Leadership?

After read­ing Steven Den­ning’s arti­cle, “The Sur­pris­ing Rea­sons Why Amer­i­ca Lost Its Abil­i­ty To Com­pete,” based on his reac­tions to a Har­vard study, my first thought was about the need to dis­cuss lead­er­ship. Please take a look at the arti­cle and study for your­self if you are able. The gist of Den­ning’s piece is that… Con­tin­ue read­ing Why Talk About Leadership?