What if we thought of our organizations as machines? Machines work best when everything stays the same. For example, when our car doesn’t start in the morning, we understand that something needs to be fixed. We take it to the mechanic, and there they diagnose the...
In one of my recent blogs, I wrote about overcoming the fear of change. This week I am going to explore two other emotions that are essential when leading change: trust and hope. Too often we focus on the goals of change; what needs to be changed and how we do it. The...
In a survey reported in Fast Company of 48 organizations, 43% of CEOs and 71% of senior leaders had worked with a coach and 63% of organizations plan to increase their use of coaching in the next five years. I have found that coaching invariably begins with either a...
As you know from my previous blogs, I spent some on the North Shore of Lake Superior recently. One part of this trip was a visit to Grand Marais, the main “city” in this part of the world. (Its population is about 1300 folks.) Grand Marais has been the...
In Michio Kaku’s book, Physics of the Future (2011), he explores the idea that “The future is already here; it is just unequally distributed!” The book goes on to describe what the next 100 years might look like if we search for innovative edges. This means we must...
