Acadia National Park in Maine and London, England provide me with a sense of belonging and connectedness for different reasons. London...

Zoom. Vaccine. Next?" was the headline a few months ago in my last post. "Next" will be anything but a linear process. Our world has been...

Adaptation. Like everyone, I have been living in a perpetual state of adaptation since the start of the pandemic. With each corner...

We seek and welcome new narratives this year. The heroic and innovative among us continue to work tirelessly in addressing the pressing...

Isn't it our brokenness that connects us? Pause to connect. Power with vs. power over. These are headings from emails I sent last year,...

Inner journey, outer actions. Over the past several months I have periodically reflected on the impact the lessons of nature from...

The way it was or will be?  What impact will nature's current lessons have on the choices made going forward? As I see it, the choices...

Nature continues to teach me. Nature continues to teach me every day, in the form of Covid-19.  I sense I am not alone. The learning...

We live in a world often shaped by buzzwords, memes and clichés. Enterprise narratives are frequently crafted by such optics. Optics...

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent...

Recently I thought about a proposal I wrote for a company right out of college. It looked at the organization and its people as a...

Hushed silence. That is how I describe aspects of my hikes in Acadia National Park in Maine this past summer. Silence, I have discovered,...

Blind men and the elephant The case for system thinking. Earlier this year, I brought attention to how silo thinking needs to give way to...

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system cannot understand itself.                                      ...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts In my previous message, I...

Atlantic: of or relating to the nations that border the Atlantic Ocean; the Atlantic community. Global: of, relating to, or applying to a...

Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems. Fritjof Capra The Systems View of Life: A...

Like it or not, though, 'can-do' has got to take its place in the list of ‘emperor’s-new-clothes’ solutions. Rely on it as a strategy,...

...the decision to search for opportunities is an enterprising decision requiring entrepreneurial intuition and imagination and must...

In every human organization there is a tension between its designed structures, which embody relationships of power, and its emergent...