Thank you for your readership in 2019. It’s been a joy sharing my insights on nature-inspired leadership with you, and hearing more about how you plan to implement some of these ideas into your own lives. Some blogs have resonated strongly with my readers this...
The arrival of a new year is often a time for committing to changes in our lives. These changes are typically framed in terms of what we want to start. Much of our focus, then, is placed on the new things that we plan to do as a means of initiating the changes we hope...
There is so much to learn from the natural world about how to live a life based on relationships, abundance and giving. November provided an excellent opportunity to reflect on these ideas and to offer thanks. Explore this month’s list for meaningful leadership...
A colleague of mine told me that the Ojibwe, a Native American tribe, have a philosophy about the order of things. They believe that plants are at the top of the order because, without them, the sun’s energy can’t be photosynthesized into life-giving nutrients. Next...
Nature has made a brilliant show of colorful, falling leaves and ranging temperatures here in Minnesota as we’ve started the transition to colder weather. Movement was a key theme in many of my writings from the past month. Here’s a rollup of October leadership...
Trees are inherently designed to grow the next generation in a forest ecology. The wisdom embedded in this design offers fruits of insight for leadership. One of the design principles is that slower growth in a tree’s youth is a prerequisite for the tree to have a...
