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Thoughts about the learning-thinking connection
August 13, 2015This week, I delve a bit more into some of the ideas of the paper I referred to last...
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Reflection and the young, busy manager
August 6, 2015Recently, I spoke to a focused and lively audience at Banco Galicia in Buenos Aires. For the past two...
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Exceptional people of influence do not have extraordinary pasts
July 30, 2015Exceptional people of influence do not have extraordinary pasts. What they do have is an extraordinary ability to learn from and to...
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Why reflection is vital to learning and growth
July 17, 2015Throughout my life, I have heard the age-old saying that “experience is the best teacher”. Through my coaching of...
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Reflecting about reflection
July 9, 2015This week, a quick thought on a subject I have been meaning to write about for some time. About...
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What should a corporation or organization stand for?
July 3, 2015Rereading David Packard’s radical views from the 1940s about what a corporation should be caused me to reflect on...
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Truth versus authenticity in organizational storytelling
June 25, 2015Writing about Hewlett-Packard these past weeks, I was reminded of research I did on corporate stories of identity when...
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Radical management in the early days at HP
June 19, 2015Irish playwright and Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw wrote that “all great truths begin as blasphemies.” Such was certainly...
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A radical people policy… from 1937
June 11, 2015Writing these past few weeks about leaders who eventually come to the conclusion that business is mostly a people...
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Powerful stories about ‘putting people first’
June 4, 2015“We put our people first.” These days, such declarations have become somewhat banal, simply because they are so pervasive....