What We Talk About When We Talk About Leadership

Photo by Memento Media on Unsplash   In Raymond Carver’s indelible story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, we are treated to an unconventional discussion with four people (two couples) about love. Apart from being one of the better short stories you’ll ever read, the subject, love, seems to present something of…

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An Organizational Reckoning

Photo by Chor Tsang on Unsplash   So I’ve hit the wall, in a sense. I am not sure where things need to head in my vocational life, but it is pretty clear that they are currently not headed in the right direction. I know these things happen in all of our adult lives, so…

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A Turnaround Mindset

Photo by Jim Wilson on Unsplash     After about three decades of working almost entirely in a consulting capacity, I was thinking about all the miles and miles of work I’ve done. This thinking started to make me feel more than a bit tired. I then realized I am tired because I have done…

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The Family Ghosts Living in Your Business Habits

Photo by Tandem X Visuals on Unsplash   In some of my earliest memories, I can remember my parents quarreling while the kids were presumably asleep — in our younger years, my brother and I were sent off to bed at our nightly prescribed time: 8pm. This was no problem for my brother who was…

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