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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.

Navigating the 4 Phases of a Sabbatical

Four phases are common to a good sabbatical experience, but each one is fraught with temptations that can sabotage the best of intentions.

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...

TO GO FAST, GO SLOW

I am always thinking about change. I want to lead it well. I want to seize the power of it when it’s happening. I get impatient when it...

My 2020 Book of the Year

If a book is good, I don’t just read it. I have a conversation with it. I write comments, questions, and actionable ideas in the margins....