Being nimble is an attractive quality – you would think – sort of the ideal combination of speed and stability. If it really were that attractive, why wouldn’t more organizations model it as a way of being? Let’s begin with a definition: “quick and light...
Change Management is probably dead. The idea of bringing order to an inherently disruptive and disorienting experience employs thousands, reassures executives but really only masks what is happening to the stakeholders – employees, customers and shareholders...
With the warming of the US-Cuba relations and the death of Fidel Castro, new conversations are emerging about the tiny island that has thumbed its nose at its larger neighbor for decades. Despite its struggling economy, Cuba has a vibrancy and charm as a Caribbean...
One of the most common traps leaders admit to is getting caught in the “intention – impact gap.” This trap is particularly sinister to people working in “mission-driven’ organizations, that is, organizations for whom the cause the organization serves is very...
This weekend saw an upheaval few of us could have predicted in response to President Trump’s ban on immigration. From the President’s point of view it was making good on a promise to make America safer. For many others it was un-American, unconstitutional, and a...
The last year has rocked the world as we thought we knew it. Two particular examples seem to serve as lead indicators of what’s to come: The “Brexit” vote in the UK and the recent abrupt end to yet another Italian PM’s incumbency. For those of you who have been off...
