by Keith Coats | Jul 23, 2013 | Leadership
“Instead of telling our valuable stories, we seek safety in abstractions, speaking to each other aboutour opinions, ideas, and beliefs rather than about our lives” wrote Parker Palmer. He went on to say that, “academic culture blesses this practice by insisting...
by Keith Coats | Jul 16, 2013 | Archive, Leadership
Developing leaders is big business. Developing leaders has become a victim of its own success in that there is little willingness to change the model that for years has delivered the success. This is incongruent with the message that business needs to overhaul and...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jul 16, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
A recent MIT Technology Review reveals an alarming trend. Since the early 2000’s and increasingly since the financial crisis of 2008, the levels of employment have decreased even though productivity has increased over the same period. Erik Brynjolfsson And...
by Keith Coats | Jul 9, 2013 | Archive, Diversity, Future Trends, Leadership
China is like a large building site. Well in truth, China is a large building site. Any visit to a Chinese city (and sometimes not even a city) there is evidence of building activity. From my hotel window in Guangzhou I counted 38 cranes and a building that was still...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jun 27, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership
A disruptive forces is not a force that results in incremental changes, improving products or services one step at a time. Rather disruptive forces result in a breakthrough or a step change that transforms society forever. Sometimes the disruption is complete and...
by Keith Coats | Jun 25, 2013 | Archive, Diversity, Leadership
“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say” seems to be the approach of many a leader. Of course we all know that this is not how it should be but unfortunately, is often how it is. How many times have you spoken to someone who is ensnared in the trap of such...
