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
Hey Babs, New Colleague, Old Enemy
Anger, panic, and our messy rooms of emotions and stories. Hey Babs, Yesterday, my CEO announced the new member of our executive team. The search...
Musings on the Emerging Future
Are we ready? Are we fearful? Are we in it together? The ability to shift from reacting against the past to leaning into and presencing an emerging...
Moving On
An update from Babs on life, the Project, and coaching. Life Update This summer we left the forests and lakes for the prairie and big sky. We...
Reflections on Letting Go of Expectations
The Beautiful Game, the elegance of Bill Nighy, and Joe Strummer wrestling demons. My fondness for feel-good hope-filled movies got a boost with a...
September 10th List
Blame, focus, time, a yogurt factory, being remarkable, and Buddhist Enneagram Here are a handful of the readings, viewings, and listenings that...
Hey Babs, Making a Mistake and Getting Fired
Babs' thoughts on sweeping things under the carpet and moving on. Hey Babs, Long story short. I was hired straight out of my graduate program into a...
Musings on More Training Not Being the Solution
(unless it's for things like Naloxone, accounting, and dogs) There are things where more training is the solution or the wisest response. Things...
Reflections on Being Desperate for Hope
With a heavy reliance on words from Nick Cave. Any easing in or setting-up for this post would be inadequate, so here we go. This transcription of...
August 13th List
Meaning of work, chance, chaos, AI (again), country western music, and swear jars. Here are a handful of the readings, viewings, and listenings that...
Hey Babs, Ticking All the Boxes but Struggling with Board Recruitment
Babs pokes at why anyone would join a board and the draw of cookies. Hey Babs, I chair two different boards, one governs a mid-size non-profit and...