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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Musings on Slowing Down
Spring is here. The snow is melting and there is a busyness about town, almost as if folks are both surprised by the change in the season and in a...
Reflections on Stress and Time
“Stress is a perverted relationship to time.” John O’Donohue. I wrote this quote down last year while listening to a 2008 conversation recorded...
February 13th List
Employee happiness, right kind of wrong, performance obsession, and curiosity. We need to talk about this. Workplace health benefits don’t move the...
Hey Babs: Promotion and Cold Feet
Getting curious and friendly with inside signals. Hey Babs, I pursued and achieved the promotion!!! But I don’t think I want the job anymore. I have...
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