Always the avid learner, I am constantly asking people: What books or articles are you reading lately? What podcasts are you listening to on your commute? What are you writing on and speaking about this year? What exciting projects are you working on? And my favorite question: What are you learning? Here’s my latest: Reading?…
How Organizational Development Professionals Are Shaping the Future of Work
This week, I had the pleasure of hosting a fireside chat with my friend and colleague, Andrew Chandler, Genentech’s Head of People and Organizational Development. The evening was to kick off the 40th anniversary of the University of San Francisco’s Master of Science in Organizational Development degree program (USF MSOD). It had been about eight…
How to Use Work as a Learning Lab
Twenty-five years ago, I moved from the Midwest to NYC. I was incredibly excited about my new job and everything I had to learn in the Big Apple. I experienced many “firsts” that first week: My first time walking down the street and realizing I had to add a skip to my walk in order…
How To Consistently Execute Your Strategy
Are you confident that everyone in your company understands their role in accomplishing your strategy? If you’re like most leaders, the answer is no. Or worse, “I’m not sure.” The good news is that the New Year is a great time to review your strategy, whether it’s a new fiscal year or not. I have…
Nobody Is That Busy: Five Years Later
In 2014, when I was working at Twitter, I wrote a blog post called Nobody Is That Busy. At the time, I felt there was an epidemic of “crazy busyness”—of which I was very much a part, but was not wanting to be. The post centered upon an epiphany I’d had that it’s not the…
A FIRM PERSUASION
“To have a firm persuasion in our work—to feel that what we do is right for ourselves + good for the world at the exactly same time— is one of the great triumphs of existence.”
~DAVID WHYTE
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