Org Culture

Latest Post.......

Finding Your Writing Process

If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.

Finding Your Writing Process

If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.

Change Is Hard

Twelve months ago, I found myself in the throes of the largest, most disruptive, and personally difficult season of organizational change...

Your Sabbatical Can be Healthy for Your Whole Organization

A healthy sabbatical offers an organization--not just a leader--powerful opportunities to take new ground.

It’s Time to Give Away Power

I want to talk about power. No, not the dark side of power nor all the abuses that flow from it—a good topic for another day—but the...

Cure for a Culture of Blame

Maybe it’s the nature of politics. Maybe it’s just part of human nature. Either way, it seems that the public rhetoric of our day is...

How Can I Build Trust?

Does it seem to you like we live in a moment when trust of leaders is at a real low? In politics we are more suspicious than ever. In the...

3 Reasons YOU Need a Canary

Coal mining is tough stuff. Gritty. Dangerous. Anything but romantic—except for the cute little canaries carried deep into the mines to...

Overcoming Vision Paralysis

If you’ve read my recent posts on vision, you’ve heard me say I think Vision is a subject that has gone out of vogue among leaders. I...

VISION — The Oil of Your Organizational Engine

The power of an engine means it creates friction. The problem with friction is that it kills engines. Every engine generates friction, no...

Why Doesn't Our Vision Statement Inspire People?

Let me cut straight to the bottom line. The reason that vision statements fail to inspire and rally the troops is very simple: Vision is...