Category: Consciousness

Do You Know What Your Leadership Journey Is?

Phras­es like “lead­er­ship jour­ney” and “lead­er­ship path” fre­quent­ly are thrown around. We may have an intu­itive sense of what they mean as code for the sto­ry of our own per­son­al growth. But if some­one asked you direct­ly, what is that sto­ry for you, could you be artic­u­late? There is so much jar­gon, so many “round… Con­tin­ue read­ing Do You Know What Your Lead­er­ship Jour­ney Is?

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

A Speculum of Fire

In a fast paced world, it’s easy to for­get that devel­op­ing your lead­er­ship is a long-term jour­ney, not a short-term project. Orga­ni­za­tions still do want to put peo­ple through pro­grams that demon­strate imme­di­ate, mea­sur­able, most often short-term results. But the inner sto­ry of a per­son­’s growth is not a one-pager, or even a short-sto­ry, it’s… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Specu­lum of Fire

Little Behavior, Big Impact

I’m always amazed at how we make mean­ing out of oth­ers’ behav­iors — even, and maybe espe­cial­ly, the lit­tle stuff. I worked with a man­ag­er once who had a bad habit of not com­plet­ing email threads. You know, that last con­firm­ing “Thanks, I’ll see you then,” or “Okay, I’ve got the doc­u­ment. I’ll take a look… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lit­tle Behav­ior, Big Impact