by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Mar 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
I recently was introduced to the phrase “the moon is always full.” It comes from a story that is included in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki.Master Baso said, … Every day the moon becomes larger and larger and on the fifteenth day, it becomes full. This is...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Mar 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
I recently received an email from a colleague that I have known for over 40 years. He was responding to my blog on Tensions are Promising and mentioned he is still learning how to live into the tensions that exist in the web of relationships he has at work. That...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Mar 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
A friend recently sent me this reminder: When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. This triggered a juxtaposition between this strategy and the usual strategy we employ when an employee isn’t performing at work. Our usual...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
How many organizations and organizational leaders want their organizations to still be thriving 100 years from now? On one hand, we might think a lot of leaders and stockholders would like to see this kind of longevity in the organizations they lead or invest in. ...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
I used to think that tensions were problematic in a team or organization. Over time, I realized that good decision-making and innovation depend on tensions. That is when I started to reframe my thinking about the relationship between tensions and possibilities. Any...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 14, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, organizations
It is traditional to define an organization’s health by the amount of profit it makes. But how does nature define profit and what lessons and implications might it have for how we lead our organizations? In nature, profit is defined by the evolution of the system. As...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 7, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, organizations
What changes if we trust our employees? Does that change how we supervise? What do we use as a criterion for good performance? It seems like this question should be obvious, however, management and leadership literature is filled with language that suggests manager...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 5, 2019 | Press
We all have been guilty of getting lost in our head. Our electronics can often consume us when we are walking down the street and we are not aware of our surroundings. We’ve all heard it said that we should “live in the moment.” What that essentially means is to be...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Jan 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
I live in Minnesota and we are currently experiencing a polar vortex. In practical terms, this means that it is cold outside. We are expected to reach -27º tonight with wind chills of -50º or more. In nature, seasons are a cyclical process. It is something that occurs...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Jan 24, 2019 | Leading from the Roots, organizations
If you are a gardener, you are familiar with weeds. Weeds are abundant in a garden and weeding is a constant activity in the summer. Some gardeners compost weeds to turn it into nutrient-rich soil that can be recycled back into their gardens, others bag them up and...
Recent Comments