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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Musings on Chit-chatting in Meetings
The siren call of efficiency and productivity. Don’t waste my time or yours. Please don’t reach out just to catch-up, I don’t have the time. Our...
February 2025 List
Silence, dropping phones, anger, curiosity, and those inner critics. This month I offer you a list for encouraging your ease and wellness. 1...
Reflections for Thwarting Bully Leadership
Complacency, fear, and hostility are sneaky so-'n-sos; let's be purposeful with courage, kindness, and facing uncertainty. The Sneaky So-'n-sos...
Musings on Putting People First
Simon says "Don't trust companies that put customers first". Stories Most every day I run across some heartening story about a workplace that puts...
January 2025 List
Cylons, neuroscience, winter wisdom, and police procedurals. In this post I share a handful of the readings, viewings, and listenings that have...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Questions, frameworks, steps, and a coin flip. Once, a long time ago the Clash's "Should I stay or should I go?" would start playing in my head as I...
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...
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