Making meaning visible Making lucid sense of a big mess of information is one of my favorite things to do. Here are some of the ways I help my consulting clients make the meaning of their work visible.
Book review: The 3 things only leaders can do Although its stated ambitions are more modest, Real Flow amounts to a quiet manifesto for a new model of work — one that begins by putting human wellbeing first, not only as an ethical principle but as a simple fact about how organizations operate.
“Bound together by the love of the game” As our media landscape fractures into countless paywalled gardens of proprietary “content,” is there a future for live sports at all? An upstart tech CEO says yes — but only if sports and media leaders return to the values of real-world belonging that turn fans into communities.
An elegy for Highly When I found out that my favorite web-annotation app was being shut down by its corporate acquirer, I found the news surprisingly heartbreaking. In between meetings, I wrote this little appreciation for it. It’s about attention, metaphors, and memory.
What concept kits can do The concepts you use to think and talk about your work set the boundaries of what’s possible. Here are some examples of the way building a new set of concepts can be transformative.
36 Minneapolis Small Businesses Endorse #Yes4Minneapolis Today I was proud to joined 35 other Minneapolis small business owners in public support of #Yes4Minneapolis, the ballot measure designed to expand true public safety for all in the city we love.
What justice for Daunte Wright requires Minnesotans have kind hearts and good intentions. But if kind hearts and good intentions were enough, Daunte Wright would be alive today.