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A few weeks ago at the Intel Agile and Lean Development Conference in Hillsboro, Oregon I had a chance to talk to an audience about Pervasive Leadership. It’s always good to be able to do this as [...]

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 [...]

As children, many of us could hardly wait to grow up so that we could live by rules that accommodated our desires and what we perceived to be our needs.  Growing up has taught us that some of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]