From Silos to Collaboration: The Process of Cultural Surgery
The leader of a large organization was seeing increasing and rapidly changing external demands. This leader felt an urgent need […]
Learning to Turn Conflict Into Collaboration
A manager in a government agency shared an extraordinary learning experience. He is familiar with the research from positive organizational […]
Bringing Conscience to Culture
In a meeting designed to explore the topic of unity, two speakers—mid-level professionals from different companies—each shared a similar story. […]
Pre-Contact: Collective Empathy
In the last blog, we considered the notion of “stranger love.” Here I would like to extend the idea. I […]
Stranger Love
Like butterflies flitting from flower to flower, there are numerous people who land briefly in our lives. Typically the interaction is […]
Culture, Constancy, and Imperfection
Because seeing and experiencing an excellent culture has more impact than listening to descriptions of an excellent culture, we took […]
The Catapult of Success
Recently an executive spoke of his last 18 months. He took over a troubled unit and determined he had to […]
Bringing Conscience to Culture
A consultant named Ryan was leading a workshop for people in school districts. The day’s objective was to raise the […]
Our Finest Hour
Recently I spoke on the phone with a man who has been a CEO for many years. He spoke of […]
The Secondary Impacts of Becoming a Positive Leader
Ten years ago a man from Japan attended our course in positive leadership. He was one of the most intense […]