On Personal Change

As a coach and con­sul­tant, I often find myself help­ing clients with changes they would like to see them­selves make. It is quite nat­ur­al for the client, after quick­ly iden­ti­fy­ing what the change is about, to rush imme­di­ate­ly to the next ques­tion: “How do I do this?” Yet, truth be told, the empha­sis can be… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Per­son­al Change

Cowardice at Work

This is a tale of two high­er lev­el man­agers — the first all but ter­mi­nat­ed, shuf­fled into a sec­ondary job with­out an expla­na­tion except the unstat­ed, very real mes­sage, “your time is up — find some­thing else.” By com­par­i­son the sec­ond is offered a dig­ni­fied oppor­tu­ni­ty to leave the orga­ni­za­tion with sig­nif­i­cant feed­back and as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Cow­ardice at Work

Breaking Patterns

My very smart wife, Car­men, notic­ing my rest­less­ness, gave me an assign­ment: “Go pho­to­graph a still life using light from a win­dow.” While she worked in her office, I rum­maged around the kitchen look­ing for items, chastis­ing myself. “I should be work­ing,” I thought. “I should be writ­ing. I should be mak­ing calls and send­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Break­ing Patterns

Leadership and Co-Design

Although the term, co-design, has more spe­cif­ic, for­mal mean­ings, I like to think of it very infor­mal­ly as two or more peo­ple think­ing togeth­er as equals about some spe­cif­ic change they want to make. In my field of orga­ni­za­tion dynam­ics, that could be shift­ing how the work is done or how an orga­ni­za­tion is struc­tured,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship and Co-Design