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On this New Year’s Day, it seems important to reach out and speak to a problem that concerns me in our broader society, something that I would like to see changed, and that I see people agitating [...]

For the last 10 years I have been teaching a mechanistic conflict model that tends to work well in software development environments.  It was developed by Kenneth W. Thomas and Ralph H. Kilmann [...]

Several years ago I was consulting in a highly structured organization that preferred to think of itself as collaborative.  My objective was to turn around a failing project and in the process [...]

As we encourage increased transparency at every level throughout organizations, we don’t really seem to engage the topic of how to take your lumps or deal with falling short of the mark.  There [...]

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 [...]

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. — “Happy Thought,”  Robert Louis Stevenson Today I spent a couple of engrossing hours [...]

The nature of my work is such that I can spend hours reading, reading, reading—especially now that I’m also focused on completing a graduate degree.  But, I’ve been attracted to intellectual [...]

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? [...]