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Vision and Values – The Antidote to Burnout?
February 3, 2012
I have had a number of discussions with clients and colleagues lately that point to the profound risk people are facing of burnout and the cost we experience when this happens. Many of our strongest leaders are saying they cannot maintain the pace and they are looking for other options that will allow them to [...]
5 Benefits of Investing Time in Innovative Leadership
January 30, 2012
I had lunch with a dear friend and executive yesterday talking about her sense of dread about getting out of bed in the morning and going to work. She is a very upbeat person so this is a new experience for her. She believed about 80% of her executive peers had similar dread on a [...]
What Is Your Personal Vision for 2012?
December 30, 2011
You may be thinking – who has time for a vision – my vision is to get through the day and get most of my tasks done. Or, I was reading holiday letters from friends, how did they possibly find time to do all of that? And yet, here we are at the beginning of [...]
Innovative Leadership Fieldbook Reviewed by Harvard Professor, Jim Ritchie-Duham
November 8, 2011
Maureen Metcalf & Mark Palmer. . Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. Tucson, AZ: Integral Publishers. Reviewed by James L. Ritchie-Dunham What is interesting about this book? One of my favorite papers on “interesting” suggests that showing what seems to be complicated and disparate is actually straightforward and connected is interesting (Davis, 1971). The world of leadership development [...]
Nicholas Carr – Build the Bridge to the Cloud or be Disrupted by New Technology
October 29, 2011
Nicholas Carr wrapped up the Wednesday afternoon session at the TechColumbus Tech Tomorrow Conference. Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. Nicholas authored The Big Switch (2008) and Does IT Matter? (2004). His writings – including columns for many periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Financial Times [...]
Walk Out Walk On – Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
October 25, 2011
I attended a discussion this morning led by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze about their latest book about leaders who walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs Who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they [...]
Mid American Association of State Transportation Officials Resilience Speaker
July 11, 2011
Title: Mid American Association of State Transportation Officials Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Link out: Click here Description: Lunch Speaker: Resilience – Increasing Leadership Capacity for High Performance Start Time: 12:45 Date: 2011-07-20 End Time: 13:30
Resilience – Changing our Story
May 26, 2011
I taught a resilience workshop recently and a member of the group asked why we read stories about people who act as martyrs and how we hold them up as role models. By holding people who lose balance as the goal, we encourage people to demonstrate behavior that does not support their overall physical, emotional and [...]
Positive Action Resulting Bin Laden Death?
May 2, 2011
So, all I have heard on the news today is that Osama Bin Laden was killed. I am struck by a question – what can we DO in our own ordinary lives to move forward in a meaningful way? I understand all of the celebrations and respect the desire to celebrate and yet it seems like [...]
Building Resilience in an Environment of Change – Stories
April 22, 2011
Today we have a guest post from Maria Polak, one of our associates and also faculty member at Otterbein University and Franklin University. Almost every day provides information on external changes to organizations and systems that can affect us in many ways. Market demands in the private sector have already affected those organizations, with resilient [...]
