Scrabble Wisdom
The other day my friend Saskia Wolsak talked about “Scrabble Wisdom”: the insights she has distilled from playing (and winning) dozens of recent games. She’s now taking these insights off the board,...
View ArticleSupporting Change Agents
Here is a story of a successful change initiative at a conservative Dutch-based bank, thanks, in part, to the Chaordic Design Framework. It is an excerpt of my forthcoming book: Make Light Work in...
View ArticleValue Quality More Than Quantity
Our mainstream society is addicted to growth and is caught in the myth that more is better. Rather than setting your compass to growth or success defined monetarily, aim to be in alignment with Life....
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Emergency Preparedness on the Inner
If we want to be grounded and calm in a crisis, we need to cultivate this capacity, the way a person wanting to climb Mount Everest needs to build up physical and mental stamina. For years I have used...
View ArticleNavigating Transitions
Perhaps you can relate: after the joy and elation when my new book was “done,” I felt lost. My usual clarity about priorities and next steps had vanished. I felt pressure to be productive — to tackle...
View ArticleTransformative Change
If you have a pattern or block you’d like to transform, consider creating a ritual. Distilling the change you want to make into a rite of passage supports shifts in non-linear and almost instantaneous...
View Article“Barefoot Facilitators”
“I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way...
View ArticlePotent Leverage Points
My colleague, Anne, speaks about “noodling” when she has a question that calls her into new territory. I love the image, and want to share the noodling I’ve been doing about leverage points to support...
View ArticleIntergenerational Systems
Each of us are parts of wider systems which — often invisibly — influence what we do. Neuroscientists working with laboratory mice have shown that fears and trauma appear to be transferred down...
View ArticleEngaging Ways
Most meetings and most trainings are ho-hum. Here are some simple ideas to spark more engagement, more connections, and more fun. You don’t have to be in a formal leadership position to make them...
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We Can Do This! guidebook for teams, now available on Amazon
It’s here! My latest offering, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Collective Genius, builds on my second book to support anyone seeking to enliven and empower themselves and their teams. And it’s now...
View ArticleThe Missing Piece: Moving from “I” to “We”
For those who’ve read my second book, you may be wondering why I’ve invested so heavily in revising the content and released it under a new title, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Collective Genius....
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