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COMPLEXITY
Fifteen handholds to leading in complexity
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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...
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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
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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COMPLEXITY
A new approach for a new year
We often approach the New Year as if we are cresting the top of the Ferris wheel—last year spread out and visible in one sweeping glance behind us, and next year fresh and gleaming in...
