I have been reflecting on two quotations for a few weeks now: First, Bill O’Brien’s “The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.” And Carl Jung’s “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...
Do you feel like the heron or the hippo? Have you ever wondered why your leadership team’s change initiatives keep getting blocked? “Darn it, why won’t they change?” “ACME Consultants promised this would work.” “We followed best practice!” What if it wasn’t their...
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” We live most of our lives on automatic pilot. That is as true of individuals as it is of teams. Our teams tend to operate without being aware of the water they are swimming...
Imagine this: You are on your hands and knees in a labyrinth. Except that you don’t know that you are on your hands and knees, nor that you are in a labyrinth. And no matter what you do, you can’t find your way out of this confusing tunnel of rights and lefts. You are...
Resistance to change is natural. What’s equally natural is that resistance makes you fear for the success of your well-intended change initiative. However, resistance to change does not destine you to fail. It is part of any change initiative as Peter Senge and...
My son has started studying French and he is learning his first two verbs: Être et Avoir – to be and to have. He is also 13 and in his first year of secondary school. He wants to make friends, which means he is trying to, in his case, fit in and find his place in the...
Have you ever gone skiing off-piste? I haven’t. I find sparsely populated ski runs populated by soft, forgiving human beings tricky enough without adding the challenge of hard, immovable, rooted trees into the mix. “Ski the gaps, not the trees.” I was told. What does...
What is the one big thing, the one behaviour, that if you could change it, would most impact your happiness, your effectiveness, and your relationships to the people around you? For many leaders who are climbing the ranks, it is the ability to delegate...
We have experienced self-doubt and procrastination as constant companions on our journey to following our true passion. Our work had brought us certainty and stability, and that meant safety. To give that up took passion and clarity about what we were going to...