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…
My granddaughter reported that her first day of second grade last week was “the best school day ever.” Since I know that she was wearing a mask and observing social distancing, I’m pretty sure it was not, in fact, the…
All of the truisms and catch phrases about change and how it is good for us come rushing in when I am dealing with a particularly unwelcome change for our organization. None more so than when we lose a talented…
It seems we are entering a very challenging time, in terms of understanding where we fit in the world. The identities that guided our life navigation in recent years are coming under extraordinary pressure and the signs are increasing that…
It has been heartbreaking to see video of what was happening in Kabul the past few days: the most recent example of a place where we’ve promoted the ideals of The American Dream without a real understanding of just how…