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I was not raised in a family that flew.  My first flight was from Seattle to Frankfurt as a teen-aged exchange student.  I still remember looking out of the window over the north Atlantic and [...]

A couple of months ago I was introduced to the notion of radical inclusivity by a colleague who was very concerned about diversity and inclusion.  When I asked for more explanation of what [...]

Everyone these days, it seems, is talking about leadership.  And, for good reason:  We are in desperate need of good leadership.  But what is good leadership? When I studied leadership theory as [...]

This topic was proposed by a colleague at a local monthly Sunday morning Lean Coffee I attend.  This Lean Coffee is held in a coffee shop in a garden like setting with lots of big windows.  The [...]

A great deal has been written about the importance of lifelong learning.  I remember in high school one of our instructors telling my class that ours would be the first generation for which [...]

It’s been somewhat silent on my blog this last months while I work on other writing projects.  One project that may interest the readers of this blog was published today on InfoQ, a go-to [...]

My last post, Courage— Learned or Innate, seemed to generate some interesting conversation in several forums.  I know the responses certainly caused me to do some more thinking. First, for those [...]

Recently, I sat across the table from someone who is taking on a really tough leadership challenge.  He’s confronting entrenched conflict in the organization he cares so much about.  I listened [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and writing about leadership history and models lately. And, for a long time now, I’ve been coaching and listening to people who are in positions of nominal [...]

After chewing on it for a couple of years, this year I’m taking the Pervasive Leadership model I’ve been working on to a broader audience.  This is a leadership model for truly agile [...]