Blowing the Lid Off

When and where do lead­ers most add val­ue? Now that’s a sim­ple ques­tion with absolute­ly no well-defined answers.  On one lev­el it seems to have some­thing to do with artic­u­lat­ing the felt needs of some group of peo­ple and fos­ter­ing con­joint action toward some­thing the group wants: wealth, secu­ri­ty, social jus­tice, polit­i­cal influ­ence, what have… Con­tin­ue read­ing Blow­ing the Lid Off

Not On Your Life

It has been great in the last few days to get back into writ­ing here. I have been so intense­ly involved in putting up the “Reach­ing Out to Build Trust” pages at teamtrustsurvey.com that this blog has been all too neglect­ed this spring. Thanks to all of you who have for­ward­ed com­ments and feed­back about… Con­tin­ue read­ing Not On Your Life

On “Identity Theft”

In a vivid dream I was lost in a for­eign city. I did­n’t speak the lan­guage and, although I had my phone with me, I did­n’t know who to call. There seemed to be some sort of civ­il war going on and for a few min­utes I was trapped in a build­ing with gun­fire only… Con­tin­ue read­ing On “Iden­ti­ty Theft”

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Wisdom Games

At the moment I am stay­ing overnight at the Whid­bey Insti­tute here in Wash­ing­ton State, a retreat facil­i­ty hid­den away in the woods an hour or so from Seat­tle.  It is late dusk, and a light spring rain is falling over the dark­en­ing for­est that sur­rounds the place. Deer, like shad­ows, walk the lawns under… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wis­dom Games

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