When you think of bullying, do you automatically think of kids on a playground? If so, you may need to rethink your paradigm.

Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, then president George W. Bush began to articulate what has been dubbed the Bush Doctrine.

Excellent leaders know the importance, power and leverage of receiving the best ideas from each and every member of their team.

If you haven’t or even if you have, I’m curious what you budgeted for the development of organizational health for the coming year?

I’ve written previously in Pushing Back Entropy about my personal contention that devaluation of others always precedes conflict in the form of direct or indirect attack. Listening to Ron Price explain axiology this morning, that process became a bit clearer for me

We humans are incredibly diverse as a species. Our differences exist on so many different levels, they are hard to meaningfully enumerate.

How do you see the world in terms of the playing field on which organizations compete?

It was 1776, June. Our new nation, freshly aware of the downside of a singular leader in King George, convened to discuss the foundation of their new experiment.

In a healthy family, everyone owns their own contributions to the problems.  

As I’ve written elsewhere, the universe has certain inviolable laws. One of those laws is entropy, the way that things left to themselves naturally deteriorate.

In our coaching work with clients, we use a battery of assessments. One of those is a self-assessment of developed competencies that are relevant to leadership in the workplace.

I spoke this morning at the Future of Leadership event in Boise, Idaho on the subject of The Yin and Yang of Complete Leadership.