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I have long been fascinated by the workings of our education systems. Often, the work I do with senior leaders requires moving through some dysfunctional behaviors to bring about functional, high-performance practices. I often wonder, “Where did these people learn that being dysfunctional will achieve their aims”? And I am forced to conclude that they learned [...]
Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing. Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His [...]
Call me a Luddite or worse, but I finally pulled the plug on Twitter last week. There were two reasons: according to Chris Barth’s blog, “…the service has come under fire from a lot of different angles – it promotes overexposure, it doesn’t make any money, and it has limited policing making it difficult to [...]
My friend Stu Zimmerman has put together a very creative idea. Inner Espresso is a daily video series – a triple shot consisting of a thought-for-the-day, a real world example and a call to action. I would love for you to have a free sample and, if you like it, serve it to yourself and [...]
Rushworth Kidder, whose thoughts and writings are always insightful, has recently completed a small pilot survey of members of the Institute for Global Ethics, of which he is the executive Director. The question: What is the most threatening global issue facing humanity today? Is it terrorism, violence against women, CO2 emissions, governmental corruption, mass migration, [...]