Choosing Slow Death: Manager 4
Manager 4 describes a process familiar to many. “We are dying. In the meantime, my boss goes around reducing everything […]
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Choosing Slow Death: Manager 3
Manager 3 in our slow death series said the following. “As a member of a top-management team, I experienced the […]
Choosing Slow Death: Manager 2
The second Manager I spoke to described the slow death process at his company this way. “Slow death is what […]
Choosing Slow Death: Manager 1
When people put their own good ahead of the organizational good, they are contributing to the process of slow death […]
Creating a Legacy of Relevance
Professional life is often driven by a short-term perspective. I sometimes try to stretch the horizons of my MBA students […]
Learning How to do the Impossible
The field of positive organizational scholarship was born at the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School. It has spawned much […]
Seeing the Whole
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.
Turning Points
I once gave a talk about deep change to a group of venture capitalists and CEOs of start-up firms. A […]
Spiritual Disciplines at Work
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.
Culture Shaping
In the movie Norma Rae, a small town girl is heavily shaped by the cultural forces around her. Her life […]