Last week leadership guru and author Martin Murphy made a strong case for shifting to a more interdependent style of decision-making. We learned about the different archetypes of decision-makers, and why we need to move beyond an antiquated, industrial mindset. This...
This week we welcome guest blogger Martin Murphy. Martin is an international adviser, speaker, and catalyst of peak performance in leadership, teams and people. He is the author of one of my favorite books, From Mercenaries to Missionaries: Designing, Developing and...
No matter where we live – we can change the world. In 2008 well-known physicist David Peat wrote a beautiful book titled Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World. I like this book a lot because he shares a perspective on how to influence...
I gave myself some time over the holidays to clear out some things that no longer serve me, whether they were old habits, items in my closet, or just thoughts in my head. In 2021 I’ve already begun to notice many more thoughts and assumptions that no longer...
I love Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants (2013). There is much deep wisdom in this book, and in today’s blog I want to focus on the artificial separation we have been taught or have...
Eventually, leaders growing their companies will wonder if they can scale their idea, product, and/or impact across other locations or the larger system. A lot of energy has been put into how to do it, but most strategies begin with the assumption that their...
Dr. Allen asked me to write a seventh blog yet again from just ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The news is that California must flatten the curve (for a fourth time) as I write this in early January 2021. So far, our state has...
Some blogs have resonated strongly with our readers this past year. As we move forward toward what will hopefully be a much more sustainable, regenerative future we thought it would be interesting to see which posts resonated with our readers the most. Here are the...
Most of us are already looking forward to leaving 2020 behind and beginning a new year. We might be exhausted but we have endured. We’ve survived 11 months of disruption and lived to tell the tale. All of us are grieving losses. For some, it is the loss of loved...
2020 has been a year where we have been challenged to adapt, learn, and survive massive change. Here are just a few examples: COVID-19 Systemic racism and other racial inequities exposed with massive demonstrations Economic uncertainty and the uneven impact of...