We recently developed this cultural assessment tool. It can be used to evaluate any situation at work (or even at home) that you would like to improve.
This is about finding what you value and what you can do to improve things. The form can be used to evaluate yourself, a situation or a challenging or particularly satisfying colleague.
Poetry is lifting the heavy rocks.
The rocks in the boundary between the sensed world that we agree upon,
And that ineffable world at the edges of our own consciousness. Continue reading Doing Poetry: A Poem
At the close of Drucker Forum 2017, Charles Handy called for a reformation of business enterprises. Frederick Bird and Henry Mintzberg responded with a tongue-in-cheek revision of Luther’s 95 Theses, their 9.5 Theses which included this paraphrase of Luther’s thesis #32:
Those who believe they can be certain of their salvation because they have achieved higher share value will be eternally damned, together with their consultants.
In the US, government seems to gladly allow enterprises to set their own scopes of responsibility, mainly shareholder value, even when that directly conflicts with the best interests of the employees and the communities affected by the production, transportation, and disposal of their products. (Here’s a recent glaring example).
Could it be that in our zeal to separate economic and political considerations, we’ve absolved businesses of moral responsibility and stalled the conversation about the equitable distribution of costs, income and wealth? Continue reading In the Absence of Good Leadership, We Must Lead Ourselves
We have all experienced a moment of doubt in our right and our ability to lead. “What qualifies me to lead these other humans when I’m wrestling with some of the same things they are?”
Heidi Gehman had some questions for Stephen about HLI. Heidi is a higher education administrator and former colleague of Stephen’s at Oregon Extension. This is part of Stephen’s conversation with Heidi about her work here.
