April 8th, 2009
My first post on culture was focused on highlighting the importance of culture and making the case that when we want to accomplish something in an organization or a community, culture has to be part of the equation and has to be included in our considerations. Overlooking or ignoring culture is in my opinion a [Read More…]
April 8th, 2009
“This Rocks.” -workshop attendee March 2009 (Des Moines, IA) “Amazing stuff. Amazing research. This changes everything.” -workshop attendee March 2009 (Richmond, VA) Working with Humans has been, over the past three years, my most popular workshop and I have now delivered some version of it in about 25 different cities. It has been a [Read More…]
April 6th, 2009
My speaking, facilitating and consulting are all connected to the issues of diversity, inclusion, authenticity, innovation and transformation. I see these issues as all being overlapping and inter-related. They also each have a leadership component and a cultural component in my opinion. I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about leadership and a [Read More…]
April 3rd, 2009
I have been a bad blogger this week. But it has been good things and good work that have had me otherwise occupied. As I work on catching up with the world on this Friday, April the 3rd there are a few thoughts and themes that are bouncing around in my head: 1-Iowa…You Make Me [Read More…]
April 1st, 2009
WooHoo! I may have a ton of work to catch up on, but tomorrow I will be at the ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference…and what a conference it is going to be. Suze Orman. Christiane Northrup M.D. Rosalind Brewer. Alison Levine. Eve Tahmincioglu. And more! It is going to be an awesome conference, I am very [Read More…]
March 28th, 2009
Next stop, Des Moines! Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration is coming back to Des Moines, this Tuesday! Tuesday, March 31st 1:00 – 4:00pm REGISTER HERE If you are interested in being a more effective communicator, a more effective collaborator or a more effective leader…this workshop is for you. If you are [Read More…]
March 27th, 2009
I recently came across the graph on the IQL Consulting blog, and I love it: How do decisions get made in your office, on your team? In my experience, it seems that decisions tend to get made closer to the Magic 8-ball end of the spectrum than the well-designed experiment end of things. I think [Read More…]
March 23rd, 2009
Admitting that we have a problem is the first step towards recovery. I have been talking and writing a lot lately about a new way of leadership. I think that we are seeing a lot of evidence that the way we do leadership is inadequate. We simply deserve better. We deserve better outcomes. We deserve [Read More…]
March 23rd, 2009
Some very cool things on the calendar: Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration (open-enrollment workshop) Des Moines, IA Tuesday, March 31st registration info Making Stuff Up: Innovation for Non-profit Leaders (workshop) Omaha, NE Wednesday, April 1st registration info ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference (breakout session – Transforming Leadership) Omaha, NE Thursday, April 2nd registration info [Read More…]