2025’s Most-Read Blogs

From sowing the seeds of a new worldview to handling complex change in our organizations, here are the themes and insights that inspired Dr. Kathy Allen’s readers most in 2025.

Leaders dove headfirst into ways to transform old mindsets from a series of new starting points:

• Scarcity and Abundance compared traditional perspectives to the concept of a “gift economy,” as Kathy gave a nod to the book The Serviceberry.
• In February’s Service and Power, Kathy invited us to consider whether we’re motivated by a desire to have power or an interest in serving others.
• Kathy taught us the value of how we view the world and our place in it. Plus, how our beliefs affect our leadership abilities in Crafting a Personal Worldview.

Many readers appreciated Nature’s revelations about faulty assumptions of success:

• In October’s Nature and the Myth of Control, Kathy reminded us we’ve always adapted to Nature’s disruptions—we can do the same in our organizations as well.
• The benefit of exchanging common metrics like profit and efficiency for softer variables was considered in Kathy’s blog Letting Go of Proxy Metrics.
• Nurturing the Egoless Organization reminded us of the power of the humbler, softer aspects of human organizations, and how they reinforce resilience.

In 2025, we deeply appreciated words of encouragement.

• In Finding Our Courage, Kathy asked us how we’ll gather the strength to respond when our boundaries are crossed.
• August’s The Power of Purpose underscored the importance of leading with a solid sense of purpose, enabling us to reinforce meaning, inspire trust, and help our organizations flourish.
• Finding Inner Resilience gave us three ways to strengthen our stability to better handle life’s unpredictability.
• Also, our popular guest blogger David Erskine shared Stoic inspirations to help us find our Courage, Wisdom, and Discipline.

In 2025, both Kathy’s LinkedIn publication Nature-Based Leadership and new Substack newsletter gained considerable traction:

• In Nurturing the Egoless Organization, Kathy reminded us of the power of the humbler, softer aspects of human organizations.
• October’s Substack Finding Flow Instead of Force helped Kathy’s new readers find ways to release unnecessary control.

-Dr. Kathy Allen