Communication Breakdown Part 4: High Reliability Organizations
In our world, there exist certain organizations that operate at such a high level of performance that it is almost unfathomable. One of...
Communication Breakdown Part 3: Words of Change
Can the words we use in daily speech actually change the direction of an organization? This is the question that I want to explore in...
Communication Breakdown Part 2: The Science of Commitments
“You gave me what I asked for, but not what I wanted.” ~You (at some point in your life) There is a science in asking and committing to...
Communication Breakdown Part 1: The Cube and the Zwygl
“The biggest single problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw Consider the following...
Enlightened Leadership Part 4: The Compassionate Leader
“Enlightenment is often envisioned as ascending a mountain. As one climbs higher, they leave attachment and suffering behind – however,...
Enlightened Leadership Part 3: The Art of Creating Unsettlement
“Effective leaders have rich practices for producing and managing unsettlement.” This is one of the most provocative and fascinating...
Enlightened Leadership Part 2: Power and the Six Paramitas
Last week I referenced a wonderful article by Chauncey Bell and Guillermo Wechsler called “Leadership by Design”. First of all, anyone...
Enlightened Leadership Part 1: The Buddha in the Boardroom
We live and work in a world where change is constant, where the speed of communication and disruption is ever-increasing, and the...
Organizational Alchemy Part 5: The “Magic” of Alchemy
To this point, we have discussed the practical and organizational aspects of alchemy, however, with what really makes “alchemy” alchemy...
Organizational Alchemy Part 4: Understanding True Nature
There is an old Greek saying that my mother reminds me of on occasion – “you don’t really know someone until you have eaten a sack of...
