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 Being a Board Chair
Villains, gavels, rules, and being delightful. When I was a kid, I learned from the news and T.V. shows that there were people out there called the...
Reflections on Being an Accidental Toxic Leader
Getting friendly with a list of common, even seemingly benign, but downright sneaky, toxic behaviours. We have all said or heard the following: *...
June 4th List
Attention spans (not just mine), uncertainty, sheriffs and witches, from routine to ritual, curiosity, CEO mindsets and excellence. Here are six of...
Hey Babs, Easily Pushed Buttons
Senior executive with snarky thoughts wanting ideas. Babs has some. Hey Babs, I have been a senior executive in a large public sector organization...
Musings on the Need for Quiet Time
Dropping your bannock and other reasons for a break. The other day at the farmers’ market there was a young child experiencing an intense moment of...
Reflections on a Full Cup
From my heart on equanimity, compassion, creativity, innovation, integrity, and growth I know what it feels like to work from a not-so-full cup....
May 7th List
Mental Health Week in Canada, more poking at performance reviews, convivencia, and finding the influential Schein at Faking Sanity in Dawson Creek,...
Hey Babs: Mid-career, successful, and not always feeling the passion
Hey Babs, I’m what you might call mid-career and successful. I lead a team of tech service managers who I like, and I believe that what we do is...
Musings on Asking Questions
The unasked, the hesitant, the closed, the prickly, and the curious. We ask a lot of questions in our lives. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty...
Reflections on the Here and Now
Where I have a freaky line of thinking. Being in the “here and now” may feel a little obvious and yet I am hearing from so many friends and clients...
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