Lessons from Leadership Neuroscience
The 4 Brain Superpowers You Need to Be a Successful Leader, According to Neuroscience by Leigh Buchanan may be written for leaders, but its lessons are important for us as [...]
Beware of Change Management Stars!
TED presenter Margaret Heffernan challenges the corporate focus on star employees who outperform their peers. In Why It’s Important to Forget the Pecking Oder at Work, “Super-performers” don’t raise the [...]
More No. Less Yes.
Author Greg McKeown makes a habit of saying “No.” In Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, McKeown lays out a sound rationale for saying “Yes” less, and for focusing our [...]
Is “Holding Space” in Your Change Toolkit?
As Lynn Hauka, the author of The Sweetness of Holding Space for Another says, holding space is something that each of us is capable of, and something that each of [...]
What Does The Trust Meter Say?
In case there is any doubt, a culture of trust is vital to the work that we do as change practitioners. You may be able to drive short-term, looking-over-the-shoulder compliance [...]
Getting Real
You may be approaching your role as a change practitioner from a position of leadership; or, yours might be strictly a position of influence. Either way, there are lessons to [...]
True Leaders
All too often as change practitioners we find ourselves unable to establish the influence we feel that we need with leaders. When this happens, the tendency is to melt into [...]
Quitting is Leading Too
You may be surprised to learn that this is a quote from Nelson Mandela; he certainly isn’t known as a quitter. For the most part, those of us who serve [...]
Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World
As change practitioners, we all know that some people are more resilient than others and that the dynamic world in which we live and work is putting more and more [...]
What You Can Learn From Under Armour’s Billion-Dollar Coup
Paul Petrone This LinkedIn post begins with the story of how Nike lost Steph Curry as their sneaker ambassador…and how Under Armour signed him and rose to become a major [...]
