The Pace of Change: Not a Speeding Bullet
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Visualizing the speed of change requires multidimensional thinking.
You and Them - dimension 1
Physical, Cognitive, Emotional – dimensions 3, 4, and 5
You and Them
You’ve been imagining, thinking about, researching and planning the change for months. You review your ideas with and get input from colleagues and key stakeholders. You’re excited. This is really going to change things around here, for the ... Read more »
Leading Change: The Playbook – Chapter 1, Principles 1 & 2
TweetGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time.
Teach a man to make a fishing rod, and he starts a business…
employs others, donates to the community, and on and on.
When consulting to clients leading substantive organization change, I employ ... Read more »
Power – How to Build it Over Time & Lose It Overnight
TweetI cut and sharpened my business choppers at a Fortune 50 company where I learned how to grow my credibility and power over time
and then learned how to lose it overnight.
Surviving and Thriving in My Fraud Job
Bored and not earning enough money as a teacher, I decided to head for the fertile ground of the high tech industry which was ... Read more »
My Evening with President Obama
TweetSitting in the comfort of our own living room, we spent Thursday evening January 13, 2011 with President Obama. We listened, watched and felt as he applied healing words to individual, family, state and national wounds following the tragic events that killed six Americans and critically injured congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
He Talked the Talk
Then this leader, this transformational leader, our ... Read more »
Esme Says – Best Leadership Blogs Should Be Leaders
TweetIn November 2010 a list of nominees for “Best Leadership Blog” appeared on the internet. The list is compiled by a person I refer to as Mr. Z. It included 10 white men and 1 white woman. Later that week a list of 25 Leadership Gurus appeared as well. It included 23 white men, one white woman and a man ... Read more »
The Heart and Soul of Leading Change
TweetThis is a true story about a group of hardy rugged men who are a continuous reminder to me that leading change is a matter of the heart and soul as well as the head.
Background and Preparation
Many, perhaps most, members of the Society of American Foresters, were supplying industry with lumber in the late 90′s. One member was dismayed to ... Read more »
Leading From The Ledge
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I don’t like looking over the edge of a cliff. I don’t even look at others when they do it. Makes my stomach flip. So our eight day white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon was not only beautiful and challenging. It was downright (punny) terrifying at times, but it is where I learned great lessons about ... Read more »
Pigs and Garbage – A Systems Thinking Tale
TweetKill all the pigs.
This decree was ordered by Cairo’s government officials to prevent a swine flu epidemic. It caused a mess. A big mess.
It was a rational decision based on cause and effect thinking. If pigs cause swine flu, kill the pigs. It failed, however, to consider that the solution itself had unintended consequences in a complex and organic (pardon ... Read more »
Where's the Vision in Supervision
TweetAll leaders from front line managers to CEOs are supervisors. Supervision is commonly referred to as overseeing another person’s work. Suppose, however, it means to hold a super vision of the person as they could be, not how you wish them to be but a more expanded and well developed version of who they actually are – their ... Read more »
