I appreciate this story because the surgeon represents so many individual contributors. They can only see the parts. They have not imagined the importance of the whole. So they cannot attend to the whole and the whole tends to disintegrate over time.
I once gave a talk about deep change to a group of venture capitalists and CEOs of start-up firms. A […]
This kind of courageous forward movement has implications for leadership development. Disciplined believers, who struggle to continually live in connection with the divine, experience real intent on a more frequent basis. Rather than only reaching real intent in the deep valleys of life, they also obtain it in their regular prayer experiences.
In the movie Norma Rae, a small town girl is heavily shaped by the cultural forces around her. Her life […]
Oliver Wendell Homes once remarked that he placed little value on simplicity that lay on this side of complexity but […]
In the conventional perspective an executive is an expert who informs. In the positive perspective an executive is a leader […]
Authentic engagement usually increases when we make a fundamental choice. The term fundamental choice comes from the work of Robert […]
I have a precious friend. He is a man of very deep understanding. Everywhere he goes he brings out the […]
When it relates to change, the airplane metaphor is apropos. Many change efforts that manage a promising takeoff eventually cough and sputter to a crash. Without something to provide lift, most of them never even get off the ground. The burden of their own weight—inertia, skepticism, resistance—is simply too much to surmount. The metaphor is also useful in understanding the dynamics of effective leadership.
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