From Moral Injury to Moral Realignment
Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It.
From Moral Injury to Moral Realignment
Tag Archives: not business as usual
Finding the Person Behind the Title
I hired a coach recently. Not to sharpen my strategy or refine my messaging. I hired her to help me find my personality. That probably sounds strange coming from someone who spent four decades standing in front of rooms and running organizations. But here is the truth. For most of those years, I was hiding. […]
The Poly-Crisis Is Not a Climate Problem
Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It.
The Poly-Crisis Is Not a Climate Problem
That Thing That Happened: Now You Have A Name
This year, the 5Cs podcast went down a few dark alleys and I promised I’d find someone who could help us work through what we’re feeling. I found a fabulous clinical psychologist who does exactly that. And before she comes on, I need to set the stage so to speak this week. I want to […]
You’re Not Broken; You’re Morally Injured
Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It. The first of a new five part series.
Three Traps That Keep Us Stuck
There is something I keep noticing in the conversations I’ve been having with colleagues and clients this month. The pattern is consistent enough that I think it belongs here, in the wider community. For years, I was the person with the colour-coded planner, the non-negotiable morning routine, and the running list of serious, ambitious things […]
The Leader of Tomorrow
From Force to Flow: A New Operating System for Leaders Who Want to Actually Change Things.
Because we can’t solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s operating system..
The Art of Not Forcing
Have you ever thought about flow? I know, it sounds woo-woo, doesn’t it? But bear with me. Some old writings on Taoism crossed my desk recently. Specifically, something I hadn’t read in decades, and I read the same passage three times. In Chinese, Wu Wei is written 無為. The first character means “without” or “absence.” […]
The Seven Principles of Regeneration
From Force to Flow: A New Operating System for Leaders Who Want to Actually Change Things.
Because we can’t solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s operating system..
Apprentices to Ripening
Last week, I argued that efficiency is a manufacturing concept we swallowed whole and have been choking on ever since. This week, the harder question. If that’s the wrong metric, what do we replace it with? I want to start with a word. Ripening. Not growing. Not scaling. Not optimizing. Ripening. The kind of […]