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In 1994, David Whyte, then a consulting corporate poet, published The Heart Aroused:  Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America.  That book had a soothing effect on me as I [...]

The notion of “holding people accountable” has long been amusing and confounding to me.  How can anyone “hold” anyone else accountable?  Our accountabilities accrue to us naturally—some merely as [...]

Several months ago I came across an interesting question in a film review.  The question, it turned out, stuck with me much longer than the film itself:  What happens to us when we learn [...]

The notion of collaborative and partnership-oriented work models in organizations is not new.  But, in some organizations and slices of industries, collaboration has become the dominant model—and [...]

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.  [...]