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I have a colleague who beats the drum that, “We do not do project management. We do project leadership.” I tend to agree with him. Though I do think there is an element of management to what [...]

As I think back at the end of the year, I realize how much I have learned this year and how my perspective has changed or been enriched by my reading, training, and experiences this year.  Some [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]