Category: Experiments

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Reclaiming Leadership: How Individual Agency Drives Systemic Change

What in the U.S system has allowed narcissistic malevolent actors (especially those surrounding Jeffrey Epstein) into leadership positions and what allowed them to dodge accountability?

A concerned law student reached out the other day with this question and here are my initial thoughts.

Crisis of Leadership Culture

We’ve been tracking a growing crisis in US leadership culture since January of 2017. We decided to look at possible refinements to leadership culture and development since then as initiatives of The Humane Leadership Institute. In the book, we propose that humane leaders

“… hold responsibility for helping people and organizations better pursue shared goals while ensuring the journey consists of the compassionate refinement of talents, habits, character and skills.”

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Learning Humane Self Leadership From A Teacher’s Resignation

Hooray and dismay.

In reclaiming her own integrity and future by resigning, a Florida teacher in the Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) made a powerful statement about our need to stop following leadership that doesn’t know how to lead. The teacher wrote:

“Florida’s startling attrition rate of 40% for educators [in the first] five years [of teaching] …. means my woes are shared by many. “OCPS Means Success” doesn’t mean squat if those measuring the success only recognize a specific brand of success, and continue to ignore the needs of their educators and students.”

Managers who fail to meet our basic human needs while hiding behind standards and data, have not earned the right to lead us. The current leadership structure may have role-based authority but they also must earn the trust and influence required to lead us. Of course, some educational leaders are doing great work at the nearly impossible task of meeting the changing needs of children, society and the imposed standards, but, clearly others are not meeting the needs of teachers and students.

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Every Organization is a Social Experiment

Every business or nonprofit organization is a social experiment being run by its leaders.

Born out of our experience, most of us believe “I can do better than my old boss,” and so the experiments begin, often with little consideration of how our approach will directly impact our teams, our customers’ experiences, or our business outcomes. Continue reading Every Organization is a Social Experiment

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Flow: A Curious Method and An Explanation

I was not in a flow state, I was eating lunch; chewing and staring at a few words about flow I’d jotted on paper.  Chewing, chewing, waiting for inspiration.

Which would be more engaging; an article on the concept of flow or one on a method to attain flow?  Could I write this post as a dialogue?  Could I link the method and the content that emerged from the flow state? Continue reading Flow: A Curious Method and An Explanation