Two summers ago, my family and I went on a backpacking trip in the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. The trip started as a potential idea, then we did a large amount of research to determine the most interesting trails to hike, and we mapped out a path. We created a packing list and d... Read more...
One of the greatest challenges of helping organizations with Change Management is that they often believe they are already doing it. After all, if you have a good leadership team that communicates with employees, they must be capable of leading change. But when you dig down and ask the leaders wh... Read more...
Turning Intuition into Science© taught by Deborah Peck, PhD Understanding how your organization really functions and making decisions based on data that comes from this understanding, is critical to innovation, creativity, a competitive advantage and employee engagement. The ‘Turning Intuition... Read more...
With nearly three decades of experience working in the thrift industry, Tim O’Neal has spent the past 18 years focused on the mission of fighting unemployment in the state of Arizona. When O’Neal was brought on with Goodwill of Central Arizona, the organization was in serious financial trouble a... Read more...
Since the 1990’s, most practitioners in the field of leadership development have been guided by leadership growth models which map six or more key transitions that leaders must navigate to successfully rise to greater heights and scope of responsibility The concept of Leadership Transitions³ is a... Read more...
We live today in a globally interconnected context that is changing by the moment, rife with rapid political, economic and environmental disruption and discord. We face perhaps more volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity than any generation before in recent human history. As we head into ... Read more...
MSSBTI Executive Director, David Lee, led a global webinar on Transformational Leadership for Thunderbird, the School for Global Management alumni recently. View the full webinar here. Read more...
A person I admire recently explained his view of change management as, “Taking people who are in a room eating pizza, dragging them by the hair to another room, and forcing them to eat a slightly better pizza.” This image of violent change for incremental improvement is extreme, but it is repr... Read more...