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COMPLEXITY
What the Mountain Taught Me About Complexity Fitness
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EMBODIED LEADERSHIP
Celebrating Doug from the Mountain Top
August 11, 2018 This morning I awoke at 3am at the Lower Saddle of the Grand Teton, a mountain in Wyoming that I grew up looking at every day of my early life, but which I had...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Nine Panes, Nine Perspectives for Cultivating a Complexity-Adapted Self
Are you leading a team that, despite your best efforts, is plagued by infighting? Busting your butt to put together a leadership team that will attract the next round of funding your...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Introducing a New Resource for Cultivating Whole Leaders for Complexity
Have you ever found yourself knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that you needed to take a different approach to something, because what you were doing clearly wasn’t working? Yet,...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
The Gender Parity and Power Gap and the Socialized Messages that Shape It
This is a scan of a flip chart from a workshop I ran recently. What you see is the group’s answers to the questions: “What does it mean to be a successful...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Women's Ways of Knowing
On February 26th, the Academy awarded the prestigious Best Actor prize to Casey Affleck, a man who has recently been publicly accused of sexual harassment. Mel Gibson, whose reputation in...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Language and the Sensation of Meaning Making
Last week, I went SCUBA diving with my two 16-year old children off the southern coast the Dominican Republic. Not a bad way to spend a mid-winter’s day. Last time I spent that much...
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COMPLEXITY
Cultivating Collaboration in Complexity—Part 2: Hope, Despair, and Hope
Last time, I mentioned I had had three recent experiences using complexity approaches to help clients experiment with different ways of working together (and since then, I’ve had one...
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COMPLEXITY
Cultivating Collaboration in Complexity—Part 1: Liberation
For the last many years, we have been experimenting with ways of teaching and using complexity ideas to help organizations and their leaders work in new ways. Our hope is that, armed with...
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BELIEFS
Does adult development hold promise for shifting the gender imbalance in our leadership ranks?
If you're even remotely interested in the topic of women in leadership, you'll have seen the recent PWC report called 'The hidden talent: Ten ways to identify and retain transformational...
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BELIEFS
Walking Joyously on Egg Shells
It’s summer here at our little cabin in the Catskill Mountains, and as I do every summer, I am attempting to grow some things in my little garden. As a self-proclaimed fair weather...
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BELIEFS
Cultivating Women Leaders and Building Supportive Communities to Hold Them
"For decades, corporations and other large institutions have sponsored expensive training programs to promote more women into their ranks. They have launched much-needed maternity...
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BELIEFS
Girl Rising: a new take on an intractable problem?
Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to attend a screening of the documentary GirlRising. It happened by mistake (in other words, it wasn’t planned). I happen to live on the...
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BELIEFS
A Complexity View of Gender Bias in Organizations
In some ways the HBS Gender experiment is old news. The NY Times article came out more than three months ago now, and a quick Google search for “HBS Gender Experiment” yields...
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BELIEFS
The HBS Gender Equity Experiment—Safe-to-Fail?
The September 8th Sunday New York Times front page article about Harvard Business School’s experiment in gender equity has piqued interest, sparked heated debate, and spawned any number...
