Category: Blog Post
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Your Feed is a Barometer
As you scroll through your social media feed today, the day after the president-elect was projected by the media. The day that some celebrate in anticipation of that projection being ratified, even while others struggle to reconcile whether that truly is the final result of a contested American referendum… As you swipe through stories, as…
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Throw Down your Shield and Embrace the Awkward
Sometimes someone relates to our willingness to be awkward and vulnerable and it brings value to their lives.
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A call for Oneness in a moment of division
What is our posture supposed to be like as we are pushed into further and further division? Amazing words of clarity from my favorite teachers.
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Questions Impact Culture
Does (y)our approach around asking questions have an impact on culture? A couple of years ago, I facilitated a discussion on another forum centered around the questions spurned from a previous post : No Capes. It was interesting to enter into dialog with folks both within and outside my profession around the topic of people…
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Steering Your Ship Through the Storms of Change
When we take on massive change and we seek to overhaul huge swaths of any organization, system, process and/or culture, we, in essence, create a man-made storm. If we try to predict everything that will happen, we are, just like the so-called “layman experts” described above, deceiving ourselves. Never have I guessed perfectly what would…
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We Get To : Reprise (with Lumen5)
The revised blog post: I’ve been reflecting on the words of one of my HR leaders a great deal in recent weeks: “We get to change.” I’d credit her by name, but I do my best not to call out the details of my “day job” in this blog. That job and my other paid…
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Memoirs and Crystal Balls are Fictions to Beware of…
We must overcome our flawed lenses on the past and future to be less fearful in the present.
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Instead of Cicero’s Six Mistakes…
It strikes me as worth noting that man has struggled with the same challenges throughout time. Witness what the Roman statesman, Cicero, who lived from 106 BC to 43 BC, wrote all those centuries ago. We observe these obstacles in our every day lives in the 21st century and as you can read in his…
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Let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm…
The poet of my youth was one Gordon Sumner, aka Sting. The first concert I ever went to was Dream of the Blue Turtles, his debut solo album. A bit odd for a kid my age as all my other friends went to the Journey, AC/DC and KISS concerts, and I loved all that music…
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A mom for all seasons
If many of you were to write a blog about your mom and titled it ” A mom for all seasons” I suspect your story might be about one special woman who showered you with unconditional love, who was your rock, your inspiration and a guiding light in your life. Still others of you might…
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