Leadership

Double-loop learning is built into many agile processes, most notably Scrum, and is also the objective of the lessons learned process prescribed by the Project Management Institute Project [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over lunch as I listened to a very bright, well educated, accomplished and successful woman talk about how she felt pulled apart by all the demands on her I thought about the insanity of balance, [...]

Epilogue I tend not to spend much time on problems I’m not interested in solving, and I have now spent many years with the problem of work. Because I find self-responsibility a most [...]