Leadership is an insanely important discipline. Here you’ll find the thought, tools and tricks of the trade of great leaders.
At the heart of every scientific inquiry is a deep spiritual quest - to grasp, to know, … Continue Reading ››
The Imagination Lab Foundation is an independent, non-profit research institute founded in 2000 and operating from Lausanne, Switzerland. Its raison d'étre is to develop and spread actionable ideas about imaginative, reflective and responsible organizational practices. The Foundation's underlying philosophy is to value imagination as a source of meaningful responses to emergent change and play as an … Continue Reading ››
In 1987 I sold my business, South Mountain Company, to my employees (and myself)... Shared ownership and control is our method at South Mountain. "Every employee, an owner" is our intention. More than half of our thirty employees … Continue Reading ››
Economists are shocked at the notion that people engage in behavior in many parts of their lives for nonmonetary reasons... It's an interesting reminder that human … Continue Reading ››
In the case where a board can't figure out to depose self-obsessed, autocratic and power-hungry managers, we'll probably se in the future that these leaders will in principle be deposed by their own employees, who will leave for better workplaces with better leaders and leadership values, that create a better space for the employees' personal … Continue Reading ››
The real heroism of leadership involves having the courage to face reality -- and helping the people around you to face reality. ... Mustering the courage to interrogate reality is a central function … Continue Reading ››
Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves. - Soichiro Honda, founder of (surprise) HondaVia Metacool via Mike Wagner.
If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won't be able to make much interesting sense of what's going on or of its place in it. That's … Continue Reading ››