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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 [...]

Some of us spend a great deal of our lives waiting for or seeking “permission to begin” from others.  It’s a subtle thing.  It actually stops us from starting.  Waiting for permission—or even [...]

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 [...]

In 1994, David Whyte, then a consulting corporate poet, published The Heart Aroused:  Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America.  That book had a soothing effect on me as I [...]

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 [...]

The notion of collaborative and partnership-oriented work models in organizations is not new.  But, in some organizations and slices of industries, collaboration has become the dominant model—and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]