Emotions and beliefs drive our behaviour. When we act out of love, we create loving positive outcomes. When we act out of pain, we create painfully negative, fear-filled outcomes. As a human global culture, we all have a secret negative…
Happy Birthday to all you “glorious and free” Canadians. This blog is not a beer commercial and I am not a beer drinker, but Molson’s is celebrating Canada’s birthday in a uniquely joyful way. When we can put a smile…
Tween-to-teen, high school graduation and mid-life are all times of significant transition in every day living. In each of these times we leave the old and familiar to venture out into the new and unknown. Why? Because the old and…
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton Leadership in the Innovation Age espouses that global leadership practices are stuck in…
Most leadership practices — whether in business, government, community service, labour unions and the not-for-profit sector — are still operating as though we live in the dark ages of the Industrial Revolution not the high-tech, high-touch Age of Innovation. An…
The foolish seek happiness in the distance; the wise grow it under their feet. James Oppenheimn I just returned home from presenting at the annual Manitoba Childcare Association Conference, titled Wisdom Begins with Wonder. Regardless of career choice — childcare…
Working in, leading and designing agile and adaptable organizations has become highly complex. To optimize both efficiency and innovation, and ultimately meet client needs, enterprises had to look beyond their own organizational boundaries for solutions. In a world where global…
Last November, I blogged about culture being the formative messenger or genetic code of organizations. To communicate and enable its performance, an organization invents or discovers a pattern of basic operating assumptions. In the words of Edgar Schein, organizations use…
For most people, the key to becoming a better leader lies not in training or skills development, but in self-awareness. Les McKeown Whether we are leading a team, an organization or ourselves through uncertainty, it is what we are…
Earlier this month, I was presented with a complex set of choices, which I knew would require some time to pass before I could make a decision. Instead of mulling over these choices every day and subsequently elevating my stress…
Culture, whether bound by organizational or national borders, contains layers of complexity within its definition. One of these layers (behaviours) is visible to the eye while others can be deeply rooted beliefs and assumptions rarely noticed or discussed by its…
In a recent blog, Collaboration Platforms — Social & Technical & Environmental, I specified that collaboration is emerging as the standard for organization design. Organization design is a business solution or process that produces (designs) an organization’s structure, roles, relationships, systems and…
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