The Importance of Cultural Soil
There is a troubled organization that is attempting to pull off a transformation. It is a school district with massive […]
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Shaping Reality
Mark Twain once wrote, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the […]
The Power of the Hybrid Lens
There is a man I have known for decades. I will call him Kerry. He spent much of his professional […]
Teaching Tough Love
It is very difficult to maintain the integration of positive opposites. I once did an exercise with two hundred bank […]
Hello, Goodbye: Endings as Positive Opportunities
While most organizations invest time and resources in beginnings, not all companies make a similar investment in the human side of endings–and the results of that are easy to see.
The Emergence of Collective Intelligence
This positive passage is longer than others because it is designed to be an exercise. Completing the exercise may change […]
Monitoring Hypocrisy
Here is a surprising point: recognizing our hypocrisy is a source of power. When we become willing to monitor our […]
Expertise, Consciousness and Enlightenment
Life has developmental stages. In our teen years many of us move into the natural search for independence and control. […]
The Importance of Suffering
When we suffer with someone, the person is no longer an object that we reject because he or she is […]
High Quality Learning Experiences
The mastery of the generation of high quality learning experiences requires learning to go beyond the role of expert. It requires a higher level of commitment and engagement that takes the teacher or administrator from being an information giver to master facilitator. The ego moves out of the center of the system.