Hello Everyone Back in February 2014, I wrote to President Obama with a letter inspired by the famous line from Kahlil Gibran: ‘Work is Love Made Visible.’ I was suggesting that if we taught our children to do any work they have more from love and...
I’m delighted to have been asked to be one of the keynote speakers on the launch of Fort Collins Start Up Week. In that talk, I’ll be sharing my ideas on the very tangible possibilities for entrepreneurs and other creatives behind Kahlil Gibran’s oft-quoted line from...
I was fortunate to have my 2014 culminate with speaking at three WorkTech Conferences – in London, Buenos Aries and Santiago, Chile. One of the things I said at each of my keynotes was that the make-up of the WorkTech Conferences programs has changed significantly...
Facilitating Transformation & Spirit Some ideas at the heart of The Conscious Consulting School I think any conception of leadership that focuses on a single individual (or discussions about ideal individualized leadership traits, characteristics, or styles) is going to be unhelpful and distracting to the work described...
Facilitating Transformation & Spirit Some ideas at the heart of The Conscious Consulting School The Organizational Perspective An organization exists to create something (a product, a service, a difference, a future) with others for others. Therefore creativity and collaboration are the motive forces in an organization. So the inquiry...
We are coming up to the 20th anniversary of writing my first book How to Make Work Fun! How to Make Work Fun! was written for a very different world of work. In the mid-90s, the biggest stress we seemed to face was the possibility that...
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I was fortunate enough to have an intern work with me for a few months earlier this year. As part of her ‘induction’ – because big organizations like mine require that – I had her read through some of my essays, blogs and books. I don't...
Everything I am about to say here is true not just in terms of business, but true also in how we engage in government, education, health services and civic engagement. Oh, and family… Our collective thinking about ‘what works’ is way too locked in on old...
Keri and I were guests at the wedding on Thursday afternoon of our friend Elisa and her partner Jeremy, in a glorious outdoor setting in a valley near Masonville, CO. It was a moving event – as all weddings are – and it was inspirational...