by admin | Aug 15, 2017 | creative leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership self development, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organizational Change, Self-Awareness
Evil bees were colonizing my brain. Their buzzing between my ears kept me awake half the night. The bees transmitted loud negative thoughts about what I did wrong that day, or what would go wrong after I woke. I had to find a way to settle those bees down. A friend...
by admin | May 3, 2016 | Emotional Intelligence, Latest Updates, Leading Change, Organizational Change, Self-Awareness
Fast Company magazine recently featured 50 companies they ranked as most innovative. My attention was not drawn to the super-cool technology start-ups, but to some old-line companies that successfully reinvented themselves. I wondered: Are the factors that lead to...
by admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Latest Updates, Leading Change, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture
A client of mine is struggling to remain competitive in an industry where smaller, more agile competitors are nibbling away at their market share. They believe that their organizational culture needs to change in order to be successful. In a recent phone call with the...
by admin | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog (All Categories), Facilitation, Latest Updates, Leading Change, Organizational Change, Organizational Consulting, Organizational Culture
Have you ever gotten in your car, driven to work, found a parking spot, sat at your desk, and wondered: How did I get here? If you ever experienced this, you were probably on automatic pilot, unconscious of what you were doing because you do it so often. Now let’s say...
by admin | May 18, 2015 | Emotional Intelligence, Latest Updates, Leading Change, Organizational Change
Last week I learned a lesson about leading change that I won’t soon forget. And it came from… an invoice… For 17 years I’ve used the same process after finishing a project: I staple expense receipts to pieces of paper, open a Word document that summarizes fees and...
by admin | Sep 22, 2014 | Facilitation, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture
One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons depicts two excited executives sitting in a meeting. One says to the other, “Let’s keep things here exactly the way they are.” The other responds, “Yeah, let’s not change anything!” Many of us want to change our organizations so...
