Last month, in a blog about what I learned on the mountain, I introduced the term Complexity Fitness. As a reminder, Complexity Fitness Means being well-adapted—in a holistic...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Three Ways to Cultivate Complexity Fitness
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
An Agile Organization is a Wise One
Written by Jennifer Garvey Berger, Ciela Hartanov, Nick Petrie Your organization is not prepared. You may have the right structure, business model and revenue streams for today, but...
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DELIBERATE DEVELOPMENT
Welcoming our full humanity at work
A couple of months ago, when I had had a particularly rough day with a client, I went to post about it on our Cultivating Leadership Slack channel and found that there was no place for me...
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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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COMPLEXITY
Fifteen handholds to leading in complexity
Living in any new place would have me reflecting on the past and on my path here, but living in London increases that reflection. Everywhere I look, there are reminders of the past—from...
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LEADERS GROW
Speaking Truthfully
“The problem with telling the truth is that it is never the whole truth.” James Flaherty, founder of New Ventures West Speaking truthfully is the third component of four...
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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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LEADERS GROW
Paying Attention
People often ask me about my favorite leadership model, and my learnings over the years about what makes leaders successful. Many books have been written on this topic, and entering...
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BELIEFS
Mining for lost treasure
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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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Weirdly practical
I wonder how often what I say or teach comes across sounding to others like Sanskrit, or some other foreign tongue? I happened to be chanting in Sanskrit, a language I do not...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Changing on the Job: Why does adult development matter to you?
Author’s note: This post is actually a draft of the preface to the Mainland Chinese version of Changing on the Job. My colleague and collaborator, Joey Chan, has asked me to say why I...
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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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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
The power to be deliberately developmental (2)
A deliberately developmental organization (DDO) “through its community and its practices, slips its hand under its people, wherever they may be on their developmental journey, and...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
The core paradox of developmental theory--and 3 ways to use it well
The anchor point of my trip to Harvard this year—as it has been every April for the last 14 years—is a guest lecture I give in Bob Kegan’s class. My lecture comes in the second half...
