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Organizations in all sectors—public, private, for-profit and non-profit—are struggling today with similar issues related to workforce productivity and performance against financial and market [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been working with collaborative practices on teams for a number of years now as well as teaching Collaboration for Cross-Functional Teams in local universities and have seen and heard a [...]

One of the most common complaints about collaboration is that “it takes too long.”  Frankly that is because we are so bad at it, and the basic skills are not part of the standard repertoire in [...]