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

Leadership’s Secret Heart

When I worked in Human Resources a mil­lion years ago, I pri­vate­ly won­dered from time to time when I would be asked for my opin­ion of what we were doing and how we were doing it. I had the sense that there was a new world, an entire­ly dif­fer­ent world out there, one where peo­ple… Con­tin­ue read­ing Leadership’s Secret Heart

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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?