Why we practice Social Safety: required for agility
HBR April 19, 2021 refers to psychological safety “the belief that one can speak up without risk of punishment or humiliation — has been...
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- May 4, 2021
- 2 min
CEO Takes Action to Bring Collective Uplift to Workforce
What benefits can caring for the collective bring to businesses? A Seattle-based CEO demonstrated the far-reaching effects of collective...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Think You're Stakeholder Centric? Warby Parker Sets a New Standard
I love what Warby Parker is doing. They disrupted an industry by introducing fashionable eyeglasses online – met their first year's sales...
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Core Promise: More Powerful Than You Imagine?
The outgoing editor of Fast Company magazine offers thirteen reasons why Apple is the only company to have made their “most innovative”...
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Ecosystem Intelligence™: Express Lane to Business Agility
Ecosystem thinking is still all-too-scarce in the first world. Based in the biological sciences, it illuminates the inter-connectedness...
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Social Brain is the Big Boss
I’ve just returned from Agile Prague, an eight-year-old gathering of change agents at which I spoke on this topic. It was great fun. I...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
A New Vitality for Our Time?
More than anything, I want you and yours, and our enterprises and communities, to enjoy the gift of ongoing vitality. Despite the...
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Leading Indicators – An Advantage of the Few?
I've been reflecting on how rare it is that enterprises enjoy the benefit of good leading indicators. Seems obvious that everyone would...
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
You Can't Buy It: Agile
In a recent interview with Builtin³ about Women in Agile, I found myself explaining to a curious journalist that Agile is a practice;...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
How did Chesney Grow Those #LeadingChops?
While finding your feet, designing how to move in an arising, increasingly-remote world AND somehow managing not to fight with people of...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
The Magic Space Between Order and Disorder
Dr Pillay’s recent book is a marvelous invitation to Leave the cult of focus and accomplish more by doing less. Not to mention enjoying...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Community Wealth
Agile leaders create community wealth – always by dignifying value partners, though they rarely speak of it that way. A good message to...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Community is the Pandemic Winner
Bloomberg Businessweek writes, Did Airbnb Win the Pandemic? Answer: Yes, via its good community bones. By conserving the ability of...
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Collective Care in Action
“AUCKLAND, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would give couples who suffer a...
- May 2, 2021
- 2 min
Language Against Which the Mind Cannot Defend
Last week I was privileged to be present when David Whyte addressed a group of leaders at Intel. Kudos to my colleague Lisa Marshall and...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
What are Ancestral Smarts? And How Can They Boost Your Workplace?
‘Ancestral Smarts’ refers to the collective intelligence that arises when a small group commits to something they can achieve only...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Measuring the Uplift of Collective Caring
As Covid vaccines are rolling out, optimism has begun to rise. Many of us are experiencing a deep longing for community: knowing it’s...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Sudan NextGen Boosts Shared Wellbeing
"Be bold, be real, and lead with love," is the mantra that Sally Ellata lives by. When it comes to making positive changes in business,...
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