In Praise of the Off-Site
My friend and colleague Jim Karrh wrote here recently about the increase in the use of virtual meeti...
PonderThis: How a Leader Becomes a Leader
One of the questions that often comes up in leadership development is whether leaders are born or ma...
PonderThis: The Cost of Not Listening
I generally stay away from “postmortem” work, but a client recently asked me to look int...
PonderThis: “Show Some Leadership!” The New “That’s not Fair!”
In years of leading executive discussion groups and off-sites I have come to expect that most attemp...
PonderThis: Google in Egypt- Testing Corporate Values
I have often railed here about the cynicism and negativity created by hollow corporate values. But...
If You Are Going to Apologize- Apologize
Another Super Bowl has passed and once again it seems that there is more commentary and furor on lin...
PonderThis: Not Left or Right… Forward
I have been reading the start up information on a group calling themselves “No Labels”. They s...
Beyond New Year’s Resolutions
It is that time of year again- New Years means New Year’s resolutions. Recently my web feeds hav...
The Leadership Parachute List
Leadership development is an organic process. Development of more effective leadership, a more susta...
The Power of Positive Public Discourse
If you read here regularly you know that I often fret about the polarized nature of public discourse...
