As 2023 begins we find ourselves living in a time of simultaneous, interconnected crises: a rapidly changing climate creating severe weather events, devastating hurricanes, and deadly flooding across many parts of the world; the risk of future pandemics (we are not finished yet with COVID-19);...
As I began to look for holiday blog topics, I ran across a sad news report from the summer on Australian folk star Judith Durham, who rose to fame in the 1960s as The Seekers' lead singer, passing away at 79. I grew up with...
Leadership is NOT about titles, status, nor wielding power! A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, says Brené Brown, American research professor and author...
Power is one of the most misunderstood – and often vilified – concepts in our society. This is the way Julie Battilana, Harvard professor of Organizational Behavior and Social Innovation, and Tiziana Casciaro, University of Toronto professor of Organizational Behavior, describe it in Power, for...
In the Western “True Grit” (1969), John Wayne, in the role of a drunken, hard-nosed U.S. marshal, helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory. The teenage girl, Mattie Ross, recruits tough old marshal “Rooster” Cogburn because he has “grit” and...
The world is currently dealing with COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that is negatively influencing our social and business world. Despite the negative effects of this pandemic, there is much to learn about how we team members, team leaders, and companies can effectively weather the storm...
Since 2014 Angela Dorothea Merkle has been the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union. German Chancellor since 2005, Chancellor Merkle has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union and possibly the most powerful woman in the world....
According to Charles Darwin, we are cousins of chimpanzees and more distant cousins of fish. We humans are the product of hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Every animal, plant, fungus, and bacterium and every one of the seven plus billion people around the...
The opening of Yuval Noah Harari’s best-selling book, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," gives us a brief description of where we – modern homo sapiens – fit into the overall scheme of things. Seventy thousand years ago, concludes Harari, “homo sapiens” were still insignificant...
For Christmas, I received one of the most fascinating and informative books I have yet to read in my 65 years of research and teaching managerial leadership. The book, "The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World," by Dr. Paul Morland of the University...