Who is that Person in the Mirror?
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” In Snow White, Grimm’s famous fairy tale, the Magic Mirror never lies – much to the Queen’s great displeasure. But in real life, there is no such thing as a magic mirror and our mirrors don’t always tell the truth. When we look at…
Building a Shared Consciousness in a Health Care Setting
“All living things are interconnected through networks of relationships. We depend on this web of life to survive.” Thomas Friedman, New York Times best-selling author What makes humans stand out is our capacity to be aware of our connections. True connectedness is based on shared consciousness-a belief that we need one another to excel, and…
Developing A Collective Sensibility
In a hyperconnected world, information is available to everyone and collective intelligence is the true source of value. Organizations of the future must move from hierarchies to networks. This will require deep collaboration, self-managing teams, and healthy partnerships, inside and outside the organization. What do our organizations require to build Collaborative Networks in our rapidly changing world?…
Leading in a Digital World
Rapid advances in technological innovation have fundamentally changed the nature of work. New digital platforms are fostering greater speed, agility, and acceleration, forcing humans and machines to work more collaboratively. When companies and their customers go through digital transformation, it requires fundamental changes in how products are sold, serviced, and marketed, and it especially requires…
Personalizing the Organization’s Purpose
People are hungry to work for a higher, compelling purpose that inspires and glues the organization together. By personalizing the organization’s purpose inside the hearts and minds of people, organizations can pursue their economic and social goals. PURPOSE AND VALUES – The north star that guides people’s behavior and holds the organization to its highest…
Leading for Today AND Tomorrow
Our rapidly changing world is forcing organizations to transform themselves sooner than expected. Technological breakthroughs are accelerating the new partnership between human beings and digital machines. Changing org structures and the redistribution of power are forcing us to fundamentally transform the way we work. And workforce demands are dictating entirely new human skills to survive….
The Seduction of Power
Let’s start with the definition of power – ‘the ability to act in a particular way to influence others.’ Like most things in life, how we use power can either liberate or sabotage us. You can use power or abuse power. And that’s the difference between healthy and unhealthy bosses. Many of us are afraid…
Leading With Who You Are
Leadership Journeys – Angela Ahrendts Angela Ahrendts’s morning routine may not be what you’d expect from the Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Sales for Apple worldwide, let alone someone who spent most of her career before that in the fashion industry. Ahrendts rises before 5 a.m. not to work or swim laps. Instead, she…
The Six Burning Platforms – And How to Extinguish Them.
# 1 LACK OF URGENCY “If we are not going deep, we are not learning, sensing and adapting to our environment faster than our competitors, and we will become extinct as a company and a species.” Vince Roche, CEO, Analog Devices At Healthy Companies, we’ve identified six pressing business problems that lead to flat performance…
Becoming a more Conscious Conversationalist
The most important tool in your toolkit for being a Conscious Conversationalist is being a good listener. Skilled listeners are able to listen deeply. What is deep listening? It’s simple: deep listeners make a conscious choice to open their ears and close their mouths. In order to listen deeply, we need to genuinely care about…
