Remember the day you drove home on the same boring route, yet noticed — for the very first time — how the sun hangs like an exquisite saffron-colored ball in the sky right before it sets?
Or the time you …
Motorcycle riding, like organizational leadership, requires an ability to focus well out ahead. I make this connection in my mind as I’m looking down the zigzag mountain road that leads to my house. When first learning to ride, I used …
“Is it nap-time yet?” The question popped in my head, right in the middle of my afternoon client meeting. What rotten timing.
Once the meeting was done, I analyzed today’s energy plunge: “Did I forget to exercise?” (No, I hiked …
I was prepping for a teleconference with the Wisdom Works leadership team this morning. In this case, “prepping” was not a legal-pad to-do list or an agenda on my computer screen, but rather a few quiet moments to look out …
My own study subject, Trek the puppy, exemplifying full engagement in the matter at hand.
I just listened to a webinar of late-breaking research about employee engagement and I’m stunned. The bombshell? According to the Human Performance Institute, no less …
My last blog focused on the “burning platform” impetus for change. For some readers, it seemed to touch a nerve. The email, hallway, and taxi-cab conversations I’ve had with executives about the entry ranged from “I’m not convinced change …
The term “burning platform” has popped up for the fifth time this week (feels like the tenth) in my conversations with senior executives. The concept has been around since my days (don’t ask how long ago) leading the change management …
When the guy who’d been saddled with announcing dozens of layoffs suddenly gets laid off himself — set aside the irony: it can be a huge blow to his self esteem. The guy — information technology exec, loyal corporate leader, …
MBA students have pinker hair and more facial piercings than they did a few years ago. To be sure, there are buttoned-up, power-tie types here as well, along with plenty of students dressed somewhere in-between. I’m standing before a sea …
In organizational leadership, the term ‘swirl’ usually refers to the point when a conversation devolves into a gyration of egos and bad behaviors, derailing any progress leaders might have hoped to make. From Caracas to Krakow, I’ve seen it in …
