By Steve Wolinski on November 2, 2010
A leadership transition is a critical change for the organization, the new team, key stakeholders and especially the new leader. The need for the newly hired leader to get up to speed quickly, understand the business, navigate the culture, build relationships with key stakeholders, assess and lead their new team, and understand their own personal leadership strengths and needs in the context of this new role can be a daunting task.
By Steve Wolinski on October 21, 2010
This blog entry – consistent with my entry from October 7 — is a commentary on Whitney, Trosten-Bloom, and Rader’s book Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization. I want to be transparent about my biases related to this current series of blog entries on Appreciative Leadership (AL).
By Steven Ober on October 15, 2010
Leading and Working in Complex Human Systems -For Diane Hetherington- The importance of human systems: We spend much of our lives as part of human systems. Examples include the organizations in which we work, the teams and groups of which we are members, our families, our communities, and our world. In fact, I would argue [...]
By Steven Ober on September 10, 2010
The Essence of Story work This post is the last in a series about Creating your Leadership Story—how you can learn to see your original systemic story; how, particularly in high stakes situations, it inserts itself into your present day leadership behavior; and how, if desired, you can change your story. The fundamental [...]
By Steven Ober on August 19, 2010
Moses, Dorothy, and the Hero’s journey We have been focusing on leaders’ deep systemic stories–how they were formed, how they shape your leadership behavior, and how you can learn to see, and if you desire, change them. In this post, we will look at the larger cultural context for our individual stories. Making Meaning through [...]
By Steve Wolinski on August 17, 2010
In the book, Dynamical Leadership: Building Adaptive Capacity for Uncertain Times, Royce Holladay and Kristine Quade offer a model of leadership built on assumptions about organizations as complex systems. While some of these may sound counter to traditional approaches, they express a worldview of human system dynamics that honors inherent complexity of organizations in the 21st century and explain why adaptive capacity is crucial today.
By Steven Ober on July 29, 2010
Three ways to understand yourself in systems Events, Patterns, and, Structure There are three ways to think about yourself and your behavior in complex systems. To increase your effectiveness as a leader, it is useful to understand all three and how they interconnect. You can understand yourself in systems through the [...]
By Steven Ober on July 16, 2010
Premises that Shape Leadership Story Work Stories and Story Work This post is the third in a series about a breakthrough Leadership Coaching approach: Creating your Leadership Story. I have suggested that one of the most powerful ways for leaders to see how you lead, understand the reasons you lead as you do, and [...]
By Steve Wolinski on July 7, 2010
This blog entry is an introduction to the process of Adaptive Leadership.
By Carter McNamara on June 10, 2010
We often generalize leadership to be the same traits needed all the time everywhere by all leaders. Is leadership really that simple? Let’s look at different domains of leadership and different skills that are needed in each. Leading Yourself To effectively lead yourself, useful skills are, for example: physical fitness decision making and problem solving [...]
Carol Mase, President of Cairn Consultants, is an educator and coach-consultant who has worked in global marketing, strategic planning, and large scale organizational change. [Read more ...]
Kristin Keffeler, MSM, of Kinetic Enterprise, is a business development and leadership coach who specializes in supporting entrepreneurs and business leaders to bring their Big Ideas to life.
Dr. Steven Ober is a senior executive coach and consultant. He has worked successfully with executives and managers in high tech, business and industry, health care, government, and education. 