Expensive and Worth It
It’s expensive and worth it to get people in the same room together. Whenever I facilitate anything for a team, I’m always aware of the following: They are not doing their regular work when they are with me We’re working on the business [...]
In Praise of the Slow Burn
I was telling a client today that I’m liable to fall in love with people. I’ve had many friendships in my life that started with a bang. I loved their outfit and told them so, [...]
Celebrating Survival
The best thing about my job is that I get to see so many other people do their jobs. In the last 20 years, as I’ve been consulting to organizations, facilitating teams, and coaching leaders, [...]
The Okayness of Life
The poet Blake says, “We are put on earth for a little while to learn to bear the beams of love.” The maddening conundrum here is that humans often have a hard time standing under these beams. We [...]
Cosmology of Mutuality
It’s a rainy weekday night. I’ve just finished with a client in Seattle and have decided to wait out the traffic for a couple hours before getting on the freeway. There’s construction on the Ship Canal Bridge, bringing traffic down [...]
In Praise of Caring
Today I facilitated an amazing group of leaders who work at a skilled nursing facility. They are so clear on their purpose and have such principled leadership that they don’t have the maladies that plague some other groups I’ve worked with. [...]