Leadership

There are not many great bosses.  Personally, since I know the origins of the term “boss,” I usually prefer the term “supervisor.” But, today, my task is to talk about one of my great bosses [...]

This blog is about re-patterning the human experience at work.  A few of the fundamental assumptions underlying these posts is that individuals have more control over their own work experience [...]

The other night I found myself talking with a couple of colleagues about a topic that catches my attention a lot lately: how we deal with failure. We were gathered around a tiny table at a local [...]

There are two interesting perspectives frequently brought into conversations regarding human systems: When a problem occurs, look to the system, not the individual. When a problem occurs, look to [...]

Is anyone afraid of change?  Why, what can take place without change?  What then is more pleasing to the universal nature?  And canst though take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change?  And [...]

For much of my career, I would find myself angry with leaders who placed their personal interests above all else, whose courage failed them when faced with great needs for showing leadership, [...]

I like, so many of those of you reading this post, grew up in a culture where it is relatively easy to seek out and experience pleasure in many ways.  The very air is full of free and cheap [...]

Somehow I find myself talking about this topic repeatedly as an aside, so it’s probably time to address it at more length.  I usually refer to the power-over model or the power-with model when [...]

Leadership is a complex topic. Get any number of leadership experts in the room and ask them to define leadership, and you’ll get something that sounds like the mumbling of the jury at a Perry [...]

I was raised in a proud, warlike, clannish family.  As I realized when my grandmother was dying, and it became my mission to get the entire family to come home to see her, we are a proud, [...]