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I’ve been thinking and writing about the Pervasive Leadership (PL) model for several years now.  It is one of the leadership models that can be useful in fostering organizational agility.  I’ve [...]

As I discussed in my last post, most people in organizational life these days find they live in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.  This inspires people in both public [...]

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 [...]

In June I previewed here that I was working on a forthcoming article on technical practices and consciousness.  It’s live now on InfoQ, and you can access it here:  [...]

The last couple of weeks, the topic of the value and risk of certifying professional practices and knowledge has been haunting me.  Perhaps this is because this coming Saturday I’m supposed to be [...]

I was thinking about the issue of trust—it’s nature, the breaking of it, and the rebuilding of it—the other day.  The occasion was likely my daily listening to the morning news.  It’s amazing how [...]

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 [...]

My good society will have strong individualism amidst community. – The Servant as Leader by Robert K. Greenleaf An interesting model of happiness (yes, there are models of what generates [...]

WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. – David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Life presents us with a [...]

When I was a child, my family tended to move house every few years.  My mother hated hot, dry weather and loved the rainy days common in a coastal climate.  My father hated dark, dreary days and [...]