“I was twelve or so. My dad asked what I wanted for my birthday. I said a subscription to Nature and Science. When it arrived, I was so frustrated. ‘This is science? I can’t understand a word of it!,’” she says with the joy of someone who eventually figured it out…. Read More»
No big sermon here. No best practices. No How To listicle. (A thought if you’re really jonesing for that, check out Top 20 Motivational Tips by Zen Habits, Eight Steps to Continuous Self-Motivation by LifeHack, or 10 Ways to Recharge Your Motivation by Marc and Angel.) Just a Request… Give yourself 2 minutes and 18 […] Read more… Read More»
“You have to embrace how much things are changing. You have to learn to kill your baby,” says this disruptive hero. “That’s very hard because you’re emotionally attached to this thing that you’ve built. Yet it’s now something that’s being disintermediated. You may have built your livelihood on it. You may have defined yourself through […] Read more… Read More»
You can’t do epic work without blowing something up…. Read More»
Most of the disruptive innovators and risk-takers told me, like John Hagel did, that their global experiences were an essential part of learning how to adapt quickly to change, as well as how to create disruptive changes themselves…. Read More»
“My teachers were really concerned about me,” he says, laughing. “They were concerned about my mental health. They called my mother in. They said, ‘He’s disrupting the other kids. Could you ask him to come to school dressed like a normal kid.’”… Read More»
Today is a wild and crazy time! Whether you’re extremely proactive, or mainstream proactive like a typical mid-manager in a typical mid-sized company … to thrive and survive in a disruptive world, you’ve got to put yourself, your ideas and your beliefs out there. Not just occasionally. Continuously. Not Dickensian-style — “Please, sir, may I […] Read more… Read More»
In my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me. In a couple hours, I’ll be teleconferencing with yet another leadership team that doesn’t get it, but thinks it does, and is holding back tens of thousands of amazing people. That saddens me. Sickens me. Pisses me off. So much wasted human […] Read more… Read More»
The revolution began in the fall of 2015. A few hundred of us Millennials and GenZers were bitching online that The Man wasn’t moving fast enough. Even with so many new 21st Century companies, far too many of us were locked into 20th Century relationships with our employers. But why?… Read More»
Autumn 2020, Looking Back: It began in the fall of 2015. We hit critical mass.
We, the readers of, and contributors to, communities like Switch & Shift — communities dedicated to the human side of business. We, the heads of HR, Training and Development, as well all the 21st Century servant leaders. And we, the consultants who serve those leaders…. Read More»
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