The Call of Writing
An untapped power resides within each of us. It responds to the call of writing. When I wrote those words, I was referring to the profound ability within each of us to express our truth, transform our experience and discover…
Social Networks: Superficial Broadcasting or Authentic Connection?
As a dedicated blogger, I am particularly interested in the shift we experienced this summer within social media networks. From a personal perspective, I found myself filtering out at least 50% of what I typically participated in on a daily…
Confronting Fear – Our Dark Nights of the Soul
Meditation allows our authentic self — our inner hero — to surface and safely guide us through the self-doubts and worries forming our “dark nights of the soul.” The courage required for these heroic acts is simply to sit with…
Designing the Adaptive Enterprise — Part I
Co-authors of this three-part blog on the Adaptive Enterprise are STS-RT Discovery Team members: Doug Austrom, Don de Guerre, Bob Laliberte, Helen Maupin, Bernard Mohr and Carolyn Ordowich. Click here for Part II and Part III. Our problem is not…
Life Purpose: Inspiration not Impulse
Every person is sent to this outpost called earth to work on a project that is intended to keep the cosmic order healthy. African Elder Malidoma Some Image courtesy of sattva / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Our life purpose — the creative contribution…
Performance Measurement: People or Production?
I find it interesting that in the business world we still debate what, as well as how, to measure individual performance. This is a main reason why I never wanted a career in management. Although I am a good team…
Pain or Suffering — Which Do You Choose?
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Buddhist proverb This profound aphorism teaches us that pain is what life’s events inflict on us, while suffering is what we inflict on ourselves, that is, our emotional reactions to those events. The implication…
Trust — a ‘4-Letter’ Word?
Trust from their workforce is no longer a guarantee for many organizational leaders. The public’s exposure to senior executive greed has generated much skepticism and mistrust of authority figures. Although many contemporary leaders may still believe their responsibility to society…
Collaboration Conundrum
In a 25-year organizational consulting career, most of my time has been spent supporting enterprises to move from leader-managed teams to self-managing teams. The main reasons for this evolution revolve around profitability, productivity (improvement and innovation) and quality of working…
When Less Really Is More
Are you feeling stretched to your maximum attending to the competing demands in your life? With all that you have to do is it difficult to choose a right course of action? Once you have chosen, are you able to…
Surviving and Thriving: Life’s Balancing Act
Thriving, for me, reflects my ability to create and express something new and of value. In the business world, we would liken thriving to innovation of products and services. Surviving, on the other hand, reflects the need to take care…
Head, Hands and Heart: Bringing our Whole Person to Work
For several weeks, I blogged about three new forms of Adaptive Enterprises illustrating the emerging picture of our human evolution in organizing work and workplaces. The first of these and potentially the most commonly experienced is decentralized hierarchy, which primarily…