Leadership is a complex topic. Get any number of leadership experts in the room and ask them to define leadership, and you’ll get something that sounds like the mumbling of the jury at a Perry [...]
Double-loop learning is built into many agile processes, most notably Scrum, and is also the objective of the lessons learned process prescribed by the Project Management Institute Project [...]
In business—and in the knowledge creation fields, especially—we are under pressure to learn and adapt our mental models and practices to new information and knowledge rapidly and frequently. [...]
This morning I had some business at the county courthouse where I’ve mediated small claims cases for the last 12 years. This year I am due to reconfirm my commitment to ongoing education in [...]
We seem to see a lot about courage in the press and in leadership literature these days. We see calls for leadership and courage. Anyone who’s ever led or been in a leadership position for a [...]
Recently I was walking my dog at a nature preserve. The path we were on was newly paved—it hadn’t been a few years ago when we had last walked here. Much of the river bottom land on either side [...]
There were a lot of very scary things early on in the life of my office administrator and cockapoo, George. In fact, pretty much everything was scary. I realized that unless we confronted these [...]
Well, it’s happened again. It’s Monday (or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday), and you have to go to work. And there he is again, sitting on the end of your bed—with the gun. Some days [...]
Ever say to yourself or someone else, “I have to go to work” with that sense of beleagueredness in your voice? Ever stop to reflect on how that happened or what it might really mean? [...]
There are only two people on this planet now who make me go weak in the knees in abject admiration when in their presence: Nikki Giovanni and Norm Kerth. They, in many ways, are not alike. [...]