Adaptive Confidence
The concept of adaptive confidence is a marriage between confidence and humility. People who are confident believe in themselves. They […]
Positive Leadership, Positive Culture
Note: The first part of this passage was posted before. Here a new story has been added. I think the […]
A Leadership Puzzle
A man from a large firm, operating in a highly competitive and fast changing industry, shared a puzzle: “In the […]
Speaking at ZingTrain
Just a quick blurb to let those of you who are local (read: Ann Arbor friends) know that I will be […]
Changing Your Focus
When Delsa and I were first married, I was in graduate school and had a very heavy course load. Yet […]
A Higher Purpose
We were at my son’s house caring for our four grandchildren. At 5:45 music practice starts. Many routines then quickly […]
The Two-Step Process
The normal way for the normal change agent to behave is to engage in the following two-step process: First, tell […]
Essential Contributions
Not long ago, I was working with a group of executives in a trust building exercise. As the exercise progressed, […]
Objects of Reverence
Some years ago I had the opportunity to teach a group of teenagers. I conceived an object lesson. Since most […]
Disturbing the System
Systems move to new levels of complexity because they are disturbed. Yet there is a basic irony about all this, […]