November 2009 Remember the 1998 movie “Pleasantville” where the mainstream townspeople passed a resolution making it illegal to teach anything other than the “non-changes view” of history in the schools? The black, grey and white world of this 1950s town – where everything was “pleasant” – was invaded by two teenagers from the 1990s, touching […]

October 2009 When Obama was elected President of the United States in 2008, the whole world seemed incredibly hopeful that the U.S. would take a responsible global leadership role. We hadn’t seen such enthusiastic hopefulness expressed in decades. It was global, genuine and palpable. For many younger people, it was a first – the first […]

September 2009 For the past five years or so I have made a practice of reciting The Serenity Prayer several times a day, often while on my daily walkabout up and down the hill on which I live in San Francisco. I first learned this prayer in my early teens, having a close family member […]

August 2009 Those of us who have been writing and talking about organizational and social transformation for some time continue to encounter resistance to change everywhere we look. It shows up in families, companies, governments and societies. Often, even on those rare occasions when meaningful change does take place, it often doesn’t last as the […]

July 2009 As the push car starts accelerating, the bucket seat into which I had just strapped myself starts bumping my tail bone. My heart is up in my throat as a hundred thoughts race through my mind. The wind starts swirling around my faceshield and into the crash helmet atop my head. I could […]

“Everything has changed save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophes.” – Albert Einstein Twenty years ago at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, I recall Professor Michael Ray and I talking about the word “paradigm” and how we had to come up with a less-academic word for the kind […]

May 2009 In this issue: 1. Readers’ Comments 2. Newsbits 3. Editorial: “Women at Work: Employing the Powerful Feminine” 4. Preview: Next Month’s Editorial 5. Quote of the Month – Carl Jung 6. Hot Link of the Month 7. Want to Blog? 8. Click and Play of the Month 1. READERS’ COMMENTS Thanks again to […]

April 2009 In this issue: 1. 1. Readers’ Comments 2. Newsbits 3. Editorial: “The Dark Side of Individualism” 4. Preview: Next Month’s Editorial 5 5. Quote of the Month – Rabindranath Tagor 7 6. Hot Link of the Month 7. Want to Blog? 8. 8. Click and Play of the Month 1. READERS’ COMMENTS Thanks […]

March 2009 In this issue: 1. Readers’ Comments 2. Newsbits 3. March Editorial: “The Butterfly Metaphor for Transformation” 4. Preview: Next Month’s Editorial 5. Quote of the Month – Warren Bennis 6. Hot Link of the Month 7. Want to Blog? 8. Click and Play of the Month 1. READERS’ COMMENTS Thanks to Dar Gillett […]

February 2009 In this issue: 1. Readers’ Comments 2. Newsbits 3. February Editorial: “Getting Unreasonable: The Path to Ultimate Responsibility and Freedom” 4. Preview: Next Month’s Editorial 5. Quote of the Month – Ralph Waldo Emerson 6. Hot Link of the Month 7. Want to Blog? 8. Click and Play of the Month 1. READERS’ […]