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Retaining Cross-Cultural Talent

July 25, 2010

I referenced some quotes and thoughts from Michael Malone’s The Future Arrived Yesterday in the past week and wanted to highlight one more and make a slightly different application given my own context.In the email I mentioned to my friend Malone wrote, “Smart companies (and countries) are going to have to learn to perpetually scour [...]

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Thoughts on”The Future Arrived Yesterday”

July 23, 2010

Just finished reading The Future Arrived Yesterday:  The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What it Means to You by Michael Malone.  Had a great time talking about it tonight with the book club I’m in and while it’s fresh in my head I’ll pass on some thoughts.Malone provides some history as well as some [...]

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The Implications of Giving Away Power

July 18, 2010

I came across this thought from Michael S. Malone in my reading of The Future Arrived Yesterday:  The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You.  Malone is a coauthor of The Virtual Corporation from about 15 years ago. “You simply cannot hand away power in an organization and expect your job [...]

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More Sunday Fun

July 11, 2010

I’m not going to offer extra reflections on this…only that I love the satire on leaders who rely too heavily on technique and “how-to” best practices on leading change without having the fundamental trust or credibility to connect with their people.

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Problem Solving

June 30, 2010

Dilbert is awesome…Obviously no leader I know blatantly does this, but I think this type of leadership behavior happens under various different rationalizations.  I’ll list a couple below… I think leaders avoid dealing with problems that need attention through some of the following strategies: Minimize the data or evidence.  We protect ourselves by convincing ourselves [...]

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Morphological Fundamentalism

March 23, 2010

I learned a new term this week and here it is: “Morphological Fundamentalism”* It refers to the reality in which certain forms or structures may take on the character of being sacred and therefore exempt from question or examination (Pazmino, Foundational Issues in Christian Education, pg. 244).In other words, this is fancy speak for what [...]

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On Leading Change and Cleaning House

January 25, 2010

One of the things that annoyed me to no end about President Obama’s inauguration was how much the media coverage made an intentional effort to repeatedly denounce the past eight years in order to glamorize what the future was going to be with a new Sheriff in town.  It bugged me even more because most [...]

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GHAAC #5 – Trust&Change

February 15, 2008

Trusting Households: Openness to Change By: Jonathan Wu The author writes, “A sign of health in emerging Asian American churches is the willingness to embrace and to learn and grow through change.” (102) The author describes the dynamic of what they call “the silent exodus” where second and third generation Asian Americans are leaving the [...]

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