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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World

A reflective management practitioner crafts an extraordinary integration of management thought and practice from an ecological sensemaking perspective

2012

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Toggling Between Two Worlds:

Making Sense of Organizational Change

21 min read2 days ago

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Words and Looks: Leadership Lessons from A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, was first published on December 19, 1843. So it’s close enough to republish this article on…

5 min readDec 16, 2020

Words and Looks: Leadership Lessons from A Christmas Carol

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The Human-Centric model is no doubt desirable, but we have known that forever.

I wrote about it in HBR forty years ago, describing how we went through the process…

1 min readJan 4, 2024

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The trouble began with the mindless transfer of the idea of agile from software development to…

1 min readDec 12, 2023

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Provocative article!

1 min readJul 17, 2023

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Underpinning the call for 'clear messages' is often a dated (back to the Enlightenment!)

1 min readJun 19, 2023

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The best hope for the humanities lies in movements like sense-making in management.

1 min readJun 13, 2023

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I have been working with the Mobius Strip for decades.

1 min readJun 3, 2023

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This is an excellent description of how a "vision" emerges from the complex interactions among…

1 min readMay 30, 2023

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Kierkegaard reminds us that practitioners must act forwards into an unknowable future, while…

Mainstream Anglo-American management valorizes the analysts and ignore the players and their experience.

2 min readMar 27, 2023