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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 [...]

Recently I was walking my dog at a nature preserve.  The path we were on was newly paved—it hadn’t been a few years ago when we had last walked here.  Much of the river bottom land on either side [...]

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. — “Happy Thought,”  Robert Louis Stevenson Today I spent a couple of engrossing hours [...]

There were a lot of very scary things early on in the life of my office administrator and cockapoo, George.  In fact, pretty much everything was scary.  I realized that unless we confronted these [...]

. . . or woman, either, for that matter.  It’s easy to go along living your life enjoying the heck out of it and then wake up, notice where you are, and suddenly realize this is not where [...]

Over lunch as I listened to a very bright, well educated, accomplished and successful woman talk about how she felt pulled apart by all the demands on her I thought about the insanity of balance, [...]

Epilogue I tend not to spend much time on problems I’m not interested in solving, and I have now spent many years with the problem of work. Because I find self-responsibility a most [...]

Personal Sovereignty One of the most common mistakes we make when we enter an organization as a worker is that we give up our autonomy, or as Polly Young-Eisendrath describes it, personal [...]

Taking Responsibility, Assuming Authority The many theorists on work, its place in our lives, and impact on our well-being are eager to show us the external culprit in our discomfort: the Great [...]

Work at Its Worst Recently, I was watching a pastiche of Stallone films. In one scene he is being broken down through a classic method for degrading the personality and resistance of prisoners: [...]