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...
Humans have two basic desires: to stand out and to fit in. Companies respond to these competing desires by creating groups tending toward the extreme – teams where everyone fits in and no one stands out or where everyone stands out and no one fits...
I was introduced to a new term “dupe” when I was facilitating a leadership development workshop in 1998. In the hotel where I was staying, I was called down to the front desk in the early evening to meet with a young man who wanted...
Few things are as important to a company’s long-term health as the culture permeating its daily operations. Sociologists and economists tell us that creating companies is the optimal way for increasing the collective well-being of society. And it is true that this starts when company...
Hidden biases are resident in each one of us and also embedded within governance, decision-making systems, and operational processes across organizations. In The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams, Pamela Fuller writes that left unchecked, hidden bias...
In her captivating book “Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts,” (2018) Brené Brown writes (and I have adapted): “When we dare to care, we don’t pretend to have the correct answers; we stay curious and ask the appropriate questions. We don’t see power...
What has changed in today’s workplace? Today’s workforce has far more racial, cultural, and gender diversity than prior generations, according to Jim Clifton and Jim Harter in “It's the Manager: Gallup Finds the Quality of Managers and Team Leaders is the Single Biggest Factor in...
Globalization derives from the word globalize, which refers to the emergence of an international network of economic systems. The term globalization had been used in its economic sense at least as early as 1981, and in other senses, probably as early as 1944. The late...
In a referendum on June 23, 2016, 51.9 percent of the participating electorate in the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) in an action termed "Brexit" by the popular media. On March 29, 2017, the UK government invoked Article 50 of...
Two British Leadership theorists and practitioners, Esther Cameron and Mike Green in their text “Making Sense of Change Management” (2012), conclude their book by stating that political, economic, and climate instability are all familiar elements of the global context in which we are now working....