I was intrigued with a headline in the New York Times Sunday edition last weekend: “Snap out of it, America” was the cover of a special opinion section. The premise of the section was that as a nation we’ve lost…
I have the good fortune to live in a place with usually glorious fall seasons – this year included. We’re mostly famous for our winters, even though they are not as long or as cold as our reputation would have…
November 2nd, 2021 was an important day in the United States of America. People across the country headed to polling stations to cast their ballots for school board elections, levy proposals, as well as choices for mayors, city councils and…
Organizations used to spend weeks, even months, developing multi-year plans that went deep on details about strategies, resource requirements, talent recruitment and more. Annual budgets were drawn from those strategic plans, setting out the milestones and measures that would be…
Full disclosure: I have had ‘a job’ without a break for over 47 years - since I turned 18 years old. Not the same job, of course: I’ve moved from private to public sector and back again. Always in an…
“Now is the winter of our discontent…” Shakespeare’s insights for our timeI can no longer find helpful contemporary context for my daily journey through this crazy time we are living in. So, I have gone to the classics. Shakespeare, specifically.First,…
In our first conversation about the federal funds coming to Minnesota, we heard that while there are aspirations, neither the states or the local leaders are set up to spend funds on transformational ideas or initiatives. These funds come with…
The terminology has always struck me as a little slick for something so fundamentally important: “value proposition” is a concept that every organization needs to own and revisit in its relationships to employees, to customers and other key stakeholders.I unpack…