I’m off to Strozzi Ranch to do one of their institute’s embodied leadership programs. Leaders really need to learn about themselves and what they embody. The world gets more and more complex and our leaders fall more and more often into old thinking and behaving. It isn’t helpful in the modern world. The Strozzi Institute work helps leaders find grounded compassion, skillful action and pragmatic wisdom. Since I teach and coach leaders I’ve found this
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One of my graduate Personal Mastery students wrote a paper about embodied leadership in which he said it is equally important to know about practical leadership as theoretical leadership. His comment put me in touch with my own quest for what worked. Years ago when I was doing management and leadership development in organizations, I became aware that what we as a field were doing wasn’t working. In fact, Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) did research
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Just finished watching Bill Gates on American Perspective (C-Span) in a far reaching interview before an audience in Washington DC. He covered everything from his children and family, business, his personal decisions, to what is possible with philanthropy. Near the very end he was talking about education and specifically what goals his foundation could meet. Goals such as having a model of a good teacher or which technology helps best in the classroom! He also listed
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Tucked in at 5:00 PM PST on CNN yesterday was a show by Fareed Zakaria interviewing leaders on what leadership is and what leaders do. I also think the podcast is available on iTunes for free. He interviewed 5 leaders, Lou Gerstner of IBM fame, Christine Todd Whitman of government fame, Admiral McMullen of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jeffrey Levin of Yale and Tony Blair of the UK. To a person they talked of making
Full Story →We read everywhere in leadership literature that for the future we need transformational leaders or authentic leaders. So what is the difference? Do transformational leaders need to be authentic and vice versa? Well transformational leaders are all about results. Are we significantly different now than we were when we started? Do we inspire change in important ways? Authenticity is more about the person. Does the leader have a great deal of self knowledge and let
Full Story →Recently in a discussion of Organizational Development professions the topic of OD in the future came up. One person said it isn’t so much an issue of planned change anymore but how to do change “on the fly”. Meaning that the world is moving so fast, how do we use our skills rapidly enough? Well first, to do something rapidly requires a certain amount of mastery. Since no one wants to take the time, effort
Full Story →I keep coming back to the fact that as my friend Joanne says “we are living in a time where there is a failure of imagination”. We seem to be inundated by fear and mired down in the nitty gritty. This means that we can’t feel free enough to imagine and follow our imagination to new and better results. Leaders of the future will have to find a way to move beyond fear and allow
Full Story →A friend an I were sitting talking about world views. Her husband is an architect and great designer. I was saying that design is a new skill being requested of leaders and I didn’t know the principles of design. What is design really? How does the world look to a designer? So I looked on the web. Principles of design are: Balance Proportion Rhythm Emphasis Unity Talk about teaching leaders soft skills! This should really rattle
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