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Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society Chris Mowles book is a Professor of Complexity and Management at Hertfordshire Business School, and this book is somewhat academic. However, Mowles has spent time in the public sector, and that experience helps him bridge the academic to share the practical implications of his work. One of […]

This week I wanted to share Sand Talk, a book by Tyson Yunkaporta. Yunkaporta is an Aboriginal scholar. His work applies Indigenous inquiry methods to resolve complex issues and explore global crises. This book is different because it ” examines global systems from an Indigenous Knowledge perspective.” This book opened my eyes to a different […]

How often have you heard someone say, “I know exactly what to do; I just need to execute?” This comes up a lot both in organizations and with individuals. The problem is that the distinction between planning and doing is a lot murkier than we recognize, and creating this false dichotomy ignores the reality of […]

This post (and the ones that follow) may differ from what I have been writing. I always write to make sense of the world and to understand it better. But I find myself in a liminal place where I no longer believe some things that I did before, and I am figuring out what is […]

It is that time of year where people are making resolutions and setting goals for the New Year. A couple of years ago I wrote about the difference between incremental and transformational goals. I want to revisit that theme as I didn’t have any good strategies for how to approach these goals at the time. […]