A Word to the Wise & a Caution to Fools
Lao-Tzu, in his ancient wisdom, describes the kind of leaders we want to follow.
Collaborative Leadership
The Challenge of Competing Ideas
“Would you have sex with a person whom you knew for certain had AIDS and your only protection was a condom?” That was not a question I had expected, though I had responded to plenty of difficult questions in the preceding three hours of the meeting.
Listening for Crickets
Comedian and former host of the Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson once offered three communication tips in a popular stand-up comedy performance. They are strangely applicable to collaboration leadership…as well as having a happy relationship.
How’s Your Collaborative Posture?
Whether it is Collective Impact, or another collaboration framework, our collaborative posture is a critical underlying factor in success.
Collective Leadership for Collective Impact
What do you do when you realize the monumental project you have undertaken will have to be finished without you? This was the question Antoni Gaudi faced when the architect realized his great work, the Sagrada Familia, would not be finished in his lifetime. His solution is one that is still available to us today.
A Reflection on Reflective Leadership
I have a confession to make. I attend Tamarack’s Collective Impact Summits for very selfish reasons. I have come to experience and appreciate the annual event as a personal retreat. Okay, it is a personal retreat taking place in the midst of several hundred people. Never forget the words, though, of the world famous Anonymous … Read more
Muckers, Spouters, and Collaborative Leaders
Here we go again. It is the Quadrennial Quest for the next “great” leader of the United States. It is too bad we are fixated on a Presidential leadership model that has not worked well in the recent past and increasingly holds little hope for the future. Are we ready to embrace a different approach … Read more