My first blog of the new year turns out to be the 100th blog I’ve written on this site. Somehow that suddenly struck me as a lot. So I began to read them from the beginning—2011. And...
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BELIEFS
Mining for lost treasure
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BELIEFS
Three hopeful ideas about change for weary travelers
I have a client I’ve been working with for several years now. As we began our work together, I was just finishing the last chapters of Changing on the Job as they were embracing the...
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BELIEFS
Simple habits for bewildering times
I flew over the US today—from San Francisco to Dallas—and the land looked the same as it always has. Spiky cities with handfuls of suburbs along the coast; crinkled olive hills giving...
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BELIEFS
Leading in complexity: Four lessons from the field
Mark Striebeck is a participant in one of our leadership programs, and he is teaching me a lot about complexity. A tall, handsome, and thoughtful engineer, he has approached learning...
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COMPLEXITY
Simple Habits to Trump irrationality
I was flying across the US a few weeks ago, and I engaged in the somewhat dangerous behavior of chatting with my seatmate as the plane filled up. He was in sales, in a global role in a...
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COMPLEXITY
What do SMART goals have to do with complexity?
I was working with a client last week and we were discussing setting a goal for his own development. I realised over the course of our conversation that we were both falling into more...
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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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COMPLEXITY
The craving and costs of certainty
As you probably know if you’ve been reading this blog (or my more frequent private blog), I’ve been dealing with the unexpected guest of breast cancer this year, and yesterday began...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Some distinctions about our bodies of distinction
My colleague, Neil Stroul, recently wrote a blog about a thing called bodies of distinction. As I understand it, our bodies of distinction are those sets of things we know quite well,...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Growing leadership agility
I’ve been working on a short paper about leading through times of complexity and change. I’ve decided there are five components I think are really important (though when you write...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
New questions for an unpredictable future
I have been in California this week teaching a bunch of inspirational senior leaders about leading through a world that is increasingly complex. There’s a way all of these leaders know...
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EMBODIED LEADERSHIP
Leaders can toughen themselves against stress
Like some of my partners, I've been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, Antifragile. So as I was writing this blog, which I had already been thinking about at length, I couldn't help...
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HABITS OF MIND
Seeing the system
I’ve been talking about adaptive challenges and the three habits of mind that will help expand the possibility that you might actually make some progress on these tricky issues. Today...
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HABITS OF MIND
Taking multiple perspectives
Making progress on your adaptive challenges, as we’ve been seeing in these last blog posts, is about developing adaptive habits of mind. In the last post I talked about asking different...
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HABITS OF MIND
Asking different questions
In my last post, I made the distinction between a technical change a leader might want to make in herself or her team, and an adaptive change. Technical changes are the ones where new...
