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Building vs Buying Complexity: the Pleasure of Process
Increasing entropy is the natural state of the universe — everything disintegrates to lower levels of order, especially living things. But…
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A deep understanding of the "being" of human beings is key to peak performance for both individual leaders and teams.
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Herzberg Hygiene Factors vs Motivators — Why People Leave Managers, not Jobs
How true is the statement that "people leave managers, not jobs"? Should you prioritize compensation, or is it team cohesion…
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Wisdom and Insight are Not Quite Portable
Experts promise hacks and easy formulas, but actually succeeding at something often is much harder, sometimes even impossible. Is it…
Warren Bennis on Self Invention and Authenticity in Leadership
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
— Leo Tolstoy
Leaders are often mentioned in…
Creative Leaders vs Controlling Leaders
In his classic The Adult Learner, Malcolm Knowles makes the distinction between creative leaders and controlling ones. By understanding teams…
The Dark Side of Active Listening
We are being constantly told to be better communicators. As part of this push, courses and programs tell us to…
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Donald Schon on The Paradox of Real Learning
Often in coaching engagements, clients are asked to "try on" a new behavior just as they would try on new…
Metanoia-Learning as a Strategy
Organizational learning as one of the central pieces of strategy is still not as common as one would think.
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Leaders have to Master Basics of the Human OS
The recent mass exodus of employees even from well-paid professional jobs has come as a wake-up call to the corporate…
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Can we Eliminate Self-Doubt? Should we Even Bother?
Self-doubt is often seen as an impediment to effective leadership or succcess in any other arena. We have an image…
Speed as the Wrong Criteria
The notion of speed is pervasive in our culture and ends up becoming the de-facto basis on which we make…
How Technology Dumbs you Down
When reading the next book, attending the next course or even while reading this article, consider what we want from…