Can we lead more effectively by being more humane with ourselves and others?
Can we learn to be more humane leaders by experimenting with being more humane in the way we lead ourselves? Continue reading Humane Leadership at SXSW 2019
Category: Leadership
Conversation
Creativity and insight are often found in the space between.
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Humanity
Basically, our organizations are groups of humans using a variety of tools and processes to produce something good in the world. We cannot escape that leaders are humans trying to help other humans in their pursuit of some goal.
We can try to augment, extend, and overcome our humanity, or we can seek to accept, enhance, leverage, and maybe even transcend our current conception of our humanity. Continue reading Humanity
Creative Self Emergence and Rilke’s Poetry
If we are lucky enough to move beyond our basic needs for safety and belonging, we can begin the process of earning the esteem of ourselves and others. A few lucky souls even get to move toward self actualization in Maslow’s model.
But, for many, leadership opportunities look like nurturing their own and other’s creative self emergence. Continue reading Creative Self Emergence and Rilke’s Poetry
Leading With Operating Metaphors
I was scared and the team was concerned. I stood in front of fifty expectant and dubious faces–the newly combined sales and order processing team. Within a few months, we had to:
- Eliminate a nasty conflict that divided the team
- Move half the team to a combined space
- Remove two order processing and tracking systems
- Re-engineer the entire sales and order process
- Double the size of the team
I knew the physics of change: to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The more we tried to do the greater the resistance from the team and the organization would be. I started up my PowerPoint and hoped my unorthodox approach worked. Continue reading Leading With Operating Metaphors