Disruption – Are You Ready for It?
Disruption here, disruption there, disruption everywhere… It’s a buzzword, but what does it really mean? I define disruption as the speed in which change happens, the acceleration it takes, and how fast it impacts other parts of the system. “The butterfly effect at the speed of light” — it alters the way you live, the […]
Starting Strong: Merging Cultures and Creating Value Beyond the Deal
In 100% of the deals where significant value was lost, the senior leaders (in corporate and private equity firms) all report that culture issues were the cause. Here is how to fix it.
Create More Joy in Your Life Using Marie Kondo’s Method
Negative feelings such as worry, sadness and anger increased by 27 percent between 2010 and 2018 and overall global happiness went down. How can we take some of KonMarie’s lessons and techniques and apply them to create a more joyful life?
Conscious Meeting Facilitation: Today’s New Normal Requires a Different Meeting Experience
It’s a fact of business life. We spend most of our time in meetings. Too much time spent in conversations that seem to go on without end and only a few people dominating the discussions. Do you want to know how to be more effective?
Leadership Doesn’t Happen by Accident — It’s a Choice
By confronting the victim mindset head-on and choosing to reject it in favor of a life of “response-ability,” you empower yourself in the face of challenges and increase your leadership impact. After all, as a leader you model the behavior others will imitate…for better or worse.
How the Game of Thrones and Facebook’s New Mission Will Save the World
The exponential change— VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) — that we are experiencing today brings a spectrum of possible futures and unintended challenges (e.g., algorithmic loopholes). We think it’s going to turn out OK, but none of us knows what’s really going on or what’s going to happen next…
Change is a Chronic Condition
Change isn’t another problem for us to fix, a challenge to beat or a phase to get past. Change is a persistent, unstoppable, chronic condition that we will always have to live with and embrace – good news – we already have everything we need to be successful, adaptable and unstoppable in the face of change.
Change/innovation is Easier When…We See That Our Current Level of Expertise Has a Short Shelf Life
Change is easier when…we can see our knower mindset not knowing a thing. In successful corporations, we value knowledge “knowledge is power,” as they say.
How Conscious Leaders Develop High-Performance Teams
What does it take to develop a high-performance team in the face of industry disruption and market volatility? In today’s world, businesses are required to reinvent who they are and why they exist to remain relevant. To do this, leaders and their teams need to develop their capacity to lead confidently and make decisions quickly in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Seven Conscious Project Management Capabilities for Today’s “New Normal”
Times have changed. The last 20 years have brought as much change as the previous 50 years combined. This increasingly rapid change has created new challenges for today’s modern enterprise. Do you feel it? This new context or “new normal” is characterized by something experts have come to call, “Living in a VUCA world.” LIVING […]