Category Archives: change management
Courageous Leadership Skills: What Wouldn’t You Do?
“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.” ~ Madonna We start, unknowingly most of the time, with questions of fear: What can’t I do? What shouldn’t I do? What am I not allowed to do? … Continue reading
Best Three Books on: Being a Change Agent
If you’re part of a change initiative team, you’re a change agent. If you’re one of the people that change initiative team is trying to change, you’re a change agent. If you work in an organization – let’s face it … Continue reading
What OK Go Can Teach Us About Being a Change Agent
There’s something insanely satisfying and beautiful about putting together a complex process and watching it all unfold they way it should. It takes courage, inspiration, commitment and vision… many of the qualities you find in change agents. The latest genius … Continue reading
The Evolution of Coaching
It’s Darwin Day today – hurrah! When we think of how coaching cultures rise or fall within organizations and how coaching becomes part of the way we do things around here, it’s worth bearing in mind the great man’s words: … Continue reading
Planning is useful…
… but plans are useless. And five year plans for the busy manager or leader? Ha! Think back to 2007, and try and imagine how deeply inadequate your five year plan would be in today’s world. Everything’s changed, hasn’t it? … Continue reading
Should you start planning now for 2012?
Probably. But we’ve all been through the misery of “strat planning” which often involves a lot of talking, a lot of writing, and not much changing. Here’s a gift from my friend Les McKeown: a complete annual planning tool. I’m … Continue reading
How Uncertainty fuels success
I’m a lover of paradoxes. Some of the ones that seem to be waving and laughing at me right now are I’m more connected and more lonely than ever How do I slow down so I can speed up I … Continue reading
“If it is true, then we truly haven’t understood anything about anything” (Great Work quote)
“If it is true, then we truly haven’t understood anything about anything.” ~ Alvaro de Rujula, theorist at CERN I love this stunned response, after a report that physicists have detected subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light. … Continue reading
Mary Beth O’Neill, Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart
Mary Beth O’Neill is one of my heroes. I am insanely enthusiastic about her book Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, and feel that her work has the ability to really shift the impact that coaching can have in an … Continue reading
