Pervasive 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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s part of the human perceptual framework that we make assumptions.  There’s a lot of data coming in, and we can’t catalog and analyze each piece without losing our minds or seeming to impact [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]