Oh, The Mistakes I've Made
Lately we've witnessed what happens when leaders don't have the emotional intelligence to admit to even the smallest and most originally incon…
Creating Range Through Exploration
Last weekend I powered through David Epstein's new book, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The book has received rave reviews…
The Limits of Learning From Failure
Experienced leaders know that failure is not necessarily a negative, and can lead to both individual and organizational learning. We try to embrace f…
Scalable Learning, with a Lean Twist
Last week John Haley and John Brown penned an interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review titled Great Businesses Scale Their Learning, Not Just…
The Simple Leader: Continue to Learn
This is an excerpt from The Simple Leader: Personal and Professional Leadership at the Nexus of Lean and Zen Learning is not compulsory…neither is s…
The Simple Leader: Evolution
This is an excerpt from The Simple Leader: Personal and Professional Leadership at the Nexus of Lean and Zen Once, after a particularly claustrophob…
Discovering the Inner Merton
If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted. ― Tho…
Of Maps, ERP, and Basic Thinking
By Kevin Meyer A hat tip to Mark Graban for pointing out this article on a problem the Fairbanks airport has been experiencing with Apple Maps. It w…