Leadership is about mobilizing people to make progress on tough challenges, and to do so we need to be able and willing to imagine that things aren’t perfect. (And at the same time, absolutely believe that things can and will get better!) Every change effort starts...
Process challenges are people challenges. They are issues or barriers that exist among members of a group, community or organization who face a common problem or opportunity. Process challenges are about how people work (or don’t) together. We think about process...
Sometimes (usually!) challenges and problems are messier than we first think. Don’t make things worse by jumping in with a solution before understanding what’s really happening. Every situation calling for leadership has elements that are adaptive (focused on...
Too often we think we have a better understanding of our situation than we actually do. We know something needs to change and we are confident we know the right way forward. Few people probe deep enough to identify the experiments and smart risks that will lead to...