Leadership Insights
This is where I share what I’m thinking, what I’m reading, and what the leaders and organizations I work with are wrestling with.
A few things you’ll find here:
- Hey Babs: leaders write in with real challenges and I respond with what I actually think. No hedging. Anonymity protected.
- The List: a periodic round-up of the readings, viewings, and listenings that have caught my attention. The librarian in me cannot help it.
- Reflections and Musings: longer essays and shorter takes on the complicated, fascinating, occasionally absurd business of leading well.
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Latest Articles
Reflections on Being a First Timer with a New Year’s Resolution
Kaizen and swearing or not swearing. In “Reflections” I encourage us to take time to generously and kindly contemplate how we are showing up and to...
December 18th List
Warm hearts in Finland, psychological safety (yet again), leadership v.s. management, singing cabbages, and Irish dystopia. Here are a handful of...
Musings on Expertise
Prompted by Amanda Goodall's "Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders" The Warm Up Okay all you courageous leaders, raise your hand if you consider...
Leadership Practice: Being in the Now
Babs' short and sweet thinking about thinking less. Welcome to a new segment of the Courageous Leaders Project Newsletter where I will regularly...
Reflections on Being Deluded in a Pair of Cranky Pants
Snowstorms, Canadian drivers in a hurry, and telling our stories of slowing down, paying attention, and taking responsibility. Snowstorms Canadian...
November 19th List
Healthy chaos, Winston Churchill, storytellers, and the friendship of Archbishop Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Here are a handful of the...
Done with Learning: A Frank Discussion Among Leaders
Nah, they aren't really done, they just need something different, like liberation. The Frank Discussion Some of you will have already heard my...
Musings: Playing Truth or Consequences with Organizational Purpose
Porter Airlines, McKinsey report, and Babs shelving books without a mission. Many organizations, perhaps yours, have statements around their...
Reflections on the Fear of Missing Out Professionally
Babs weighed down with merit badges and eating worms in the garden. In “Reflections” I encourage us to take time to generously and kindly...
October 16th List
Artifacts, culture shifting, ethics, and finally Babs' take on Ashes to Ashes' bad cops. Here are a handful of the readings, viewings, and...