“Can’t we all just get along?” This is one of those soundbites that I can always recall. I can hear it like it was yesterday. Maybe I can because this line was…
Category: The Prophetic
Stemming the Tide of Scapegoating
In the Systems & Power Leadership Community I facilitate yearly, one of the dynamics we explore relates to anxiety in groups and emotional systems and one of the things that we explore…
I’m Not A Part of This System! I’m an Adult!
If you thought I beyond analyzing philosophical statements left on dirty cars you were wrong! This was just too tempting for me. My family pulled up next to this car today as…
Don’t Wait to Create!
I reviewed a book a while back called Orbiting the Giant Hairball that was given to me by a friend this past summer. Since then I’ve gotten no less that 20 people…
A Team’s Last Line of Defense Pt 2
Now that I’ve laid out the metaphor and context of “A Team’s Last Line of Defense” in Part One, I want to point out that in a team setting there are always…
A Team’s Last Line of Defense Pt 1
If you think about your current team – whether it’s a formal and ongoing team or whether it’s more informal and temporary, then sooner or later you’ll have to face the reality…
Responsibility and Bureaucracy
This is somewhat of a follow-up post to my post a few days ago which raised the question from Robert Greenleaf about the need to be both good and bad in some…
Try First-Guessing
As a Cub fan I’ve watched a lot of games on WGN over the years. One of the great Cubs announcers for a time was Steve Stone (who now does TV on…