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Why we have trouble doing nothing
August 20, 2015When I began perusing the research paper “Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection”, one of...
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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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Four things most effective leaders do on a continuous basis
April 16, 2015It seems that whenever I talk to an audience about how managers at any level of an organization can...
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How Gandhi inspires middle managers to lead
January 16, 2015There is a potential drawback to using the stories of great men such as Gandhi when I teach a...
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A visit to Harvard to talk about systems thinking
July 17, 2014I ended the last post with the thought that theatre training and acting experience had helped me to become...
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Making any experience transformational
March 6, 2014In March 2013, when I was preparing to speak at EFMD’s annual MBA conference about “creating a positive group...