Leadership and Support

By “sup­port” I mean sit­ting on the same side of the table as some­one else, being able to empathize and to respect the per­son­’s dig­ni­ty and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. It means serv­ing as an advo­cate who gen­uine­ly believes in this per­son and is will­ing to help, even if it involves chal­leng­ing feed­back and straight talk. To me,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship and Support

The Mean Turn

There are times when I might unknow­ing­ly fright­en or intim­i­date anoth­er per­son. And there are times when anoth­er per­son might also unknow­ing­ly fright­en or intim­i­date me. This aware­ness caus­es me to think about human discon­nec­tions, how they arise and how we must address them, for all too often, unad­dressed, they move us back­wards towards becom­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Mean Turn

Not Deep Enough

It often seems plain that the prob­lems of orga­ni­za­tions are real­ly just the prob­lems of us unwill­ing to go deep enough. Deep enough into see­ing things from oth­ers’ per­spec­tives (whether cus­tomers or staff or peers) and deep enough into our own “stuff,” as well — the stuff that gets in the way of effec­tive lead­er­ship.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Not Deep Enough

Blue Hill

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