Babs’ starter list on what is holding public and nonprofit sector organizations back from being great. In 2001, Good to Great: Why Some...
From Good to Great Revisited
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Organizational Leadership Articles
Reflections on Fear, Compliance, and the Importance of Non-Fragility
Leadership lessons from Widow’s Bay and the Bay of Pigs. Of course a scene from a comedy-horror show got me thinking about leadership;...
June 2026 List
Neil Diamond interpreter, prophecies, AI (yes, again), dating, Hirayasumi, and reading Viktor Frankl with my grandmother. 1 Song Sung Blue...
Musings on Leadership Speakers and Books
Shortcuts, tricks, and magical thinking happen in the best of families. This one is from my in-laws
Hey Babs, “Gravy Train” and “You’re Fired”
Babs pokes at managerialism, restructuring, reorganizing, and outsourcing judgement. Hey Babs, In 2022 and again in 2024 we worked with a...
The Failure of Leadership Development Programs
And why we keep propping them up. Finally Forbes published the article that had been stewing in my mind for a handful of years. Admittedly...
Public Library Boards, Democracy, and Authoritarianism
Filing away a research project dear to my heart. Admittedly, this is a bit of a self-indulgent post as I regrettably file away a research...
How We Talk About AI
My grandfather said “pony up” to me a lot when I was a kid. I was one disappointed kid waiting for that pony. Too many of us are...
Hey Babs, The Missing Connections
The story that Babs got tired of waiting for, so made it up. Sort of. Hey Babs, We recently worked with a consultancy firm to design and...
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