My unfiltered takes on leadership, culture, navigating complexity, and the (sometimes bumpy) road to personal growth—with a special lens for those leading from the in-between.
Explore how cognitive dissonance leads organizations to live double lives, acting in contradictory ways, and how to start breaking free from this trap. Part 5 of the Cultural Alchemy series.
Confront the Contradictions →Explore how to work effectively with culture's different speeds of change—from behaviors to deep-seated assumptions—to foster meaningful evolution rather than superficial fixes. Part 4 of the Cultural Alchemy series.
Evolve Your Approach →Trying to 'fix' culture like it's a leaky faucet? It's more like trying to change the weather. This post explores how culture evolves at its own pace, why your quick fixes often backfire, and how understanding 'pace layers' can help you design change that actually sticks.
Ready for a Climate Shift? →Think that new agile framework will save you? Adorable. Culture will chew it up and spit it out unless you get to the real meal: shifting those pesky underlying assumptions. Frameworks often just skim the surface...
Get the Gory Details →Still blaming process or skill gaps? Cute. The real culprit holding your team hostage might just be a story everyone's pretending not to hear – those 'invisible scripts' about worth quietly shaping what feels safe...
Pull Back the Curtain →Yeah, yeah, scaling and decision-making are hard. But what if the real beast is your culture? Forget the mission statements on the wall; we're talking deep mindset shifts, the kind that actually transform how choices are made...
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