Welcome to the world
Today our world added its 7 billionth member. Imagine a world population of 7 billion people! While that is staggering, I find the rate of growth even more astounding. In 1999, we had just passed the 6 billion mark, which is 1 billion people in just over a decade. And in just 8 more years, [...]
Why Don’t We Learn?
In 1992 Margaret Wheatley wrote a book, Leader and the New Science. I had it in my bookshelf for probably 10 to 15 years but never got around to reading it, that is, until now. I am amazed at how much she writes is what I present in my book, The Living Organization®. She describes [...]
Gregg Tribute
I lost a dear friend and partner this past month. Many of you knew Gregg Gallagher, who passed on April 6, 2011 after loosing a brave battle against cancer. It is very hard for me to put into words my feelings, thoughts and remembrances of Gregg because the experience of knowing him runs much deeper [...]
A Non-Profit Discovers Its Soulful Purpose™
This past weekend we facilitated a strategy session for the board of directors of a local non-profit. Our major objective was to create a greater level of engagement among the board (especially among its large percentage of new members) and to focus their efforts on their number one challenge—funding. Most facilitators would have focused on [...]
Who is to Blame?
We continue to hear people calling for the business community to be more accountable for their actions. Nowhere is this stronger than in the relationship business has with our environment, our planet and its resources. I don’t want to pretend this is a simple issue and one that can be easily addressed. I do not [...]
Executing an Innovative Strategy
As we discussed last week there is a difference between an Incremental Strategy and Innovation Strategy. All strategies are designed to improve performance, which means you are going to do something different than what you are doing. Whenever you establish a new strategy, you are establishing a desire to change something. Whether it is incremental [...]
Norman Wolfe Appears on Compelling Change & Critical Mass Shows
Norman recently appeared on Jeanie Marsh’s internet radio show, Compelling Change where they discussed Quantum Leaders’ The Living Organization a new model that views organizations as living beings that grow, evolve, and create. Norman Wolfe is founder and CEO of Quantum Leaders and the author of the forthcoming book, “The Living Organization”. During the show, Jeanie [...]
The Living Organization™ Model – The Physics
The one thing we know about the universe that is uniformly agreed to by all disciplines is that everything in the universe is energy – and that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Therefore everything that happens in the world is the transformation of one form of energy into another. We know energy can [...]
Profit as a metric of the spirtual journy
In my last post I talked about the importance for the CEO and the board to increase the value of the firm, and that this should be a key focus of their responsibilities. I also state that the focus on value creation is perfectly consistent with the idea that business is a spiritual journey. Value [...]
Big Teams – Barriers to Innovation?
In his recent post “Is Design a Team Sports?”, Idris Mootee discusses the role of the individual designer versus a design team. During that discussion he broaches the question as to whether large teams are barriers to innovation. I think that there is a semantic trap in the question, becuase it potentially blurs the distinction [...]
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