Last week we introduced the powerful Immunity to Change mapping process created by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. If you need to catch up, start with Pa...
If you find behavior change trivially easy and are someone who can simply make up their mind to instantly and effortlessly adopt new and improved acti...
You can look up the numbers on behavior change, and the success rate thereof, but the truth is you probably don’t need to. You probably already have f...
Wherever we go, wherever we are, we are always in some sort of feeling state. Our feeling state is a continuous, subjective, nonverbal evaluation of h...
I almost talked myself out of the two-hour drive to see the eclipse in 2017. I couldn’t understand all the fuss. I was not thrilled about giving up a ...
Daniel Kahneman died the week before last, on March 27, 2024, at the age of ninety.
If you don’t recognize that name, Kahneman was a giant in the stu...
Imagine using a wide, chisel-tip yellow highlighter to trace the eastern coast of Central America on a map.
Start at the southern tip of Texas and fo...
“To thine own self be true” is a modern rallying cry for authenticity and self-expression.
After “To be or not to be…” (also from Hamlet), it is perh...
Let's start with a story:
I found myself unable to eat as I sat across the table from Martha on an August day at the local Mexican restaurant near my...
Let's talk about personality tests.
Well-designed personality tests attempt to get at a person’s “hard wiring,” those deeply ingrained traits and pro...
Constructivism is the educational philosophy that says humans do not simply absorb knowledge from the external world. We are not passive receivers of ...
“Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.”
—Richard Feynman
Whether you are an individual contributor at work, a ma...
Last week we introduced the Johari Window (pronounced "Joe-Harry"). Described as a "graphical model for interpersonal awareness," the Johari Window pr...
The Johari Window, a graphic model for interpersonal awareness, is a big title for a simple, yet powerful idea.
It was first published by the UCLA Ex...
Last week, in Part Two of this series on the Cynefin Framework, we explored the unordered world of Complex and Chaotic Systems, and how they require a...
Last week we introduced the Cynefin Framework, a powerful tool for making sense of the very different domains in which we all must solve problems.
If...
We cannot effectively solve problems or lead teams, let alone entire organizations, without understanding the Cynefin Framework.
A bold statement, ye...
Last week I wrote about physical health. I argued that your mind is the tool you use to do your work, to engage with your friends and family, to lead ...
I almost talked myself out of writing about physical health, but I decided to proceed because this topic is just too important to shy away from.
Phys...
Welcome to a new year!
We enter 2024 with significant uncertainty in the world. The new year begins with two wars of global significance in Gaza and ...
We're taking it easy this week, and we hope you are, too. These last few days of 2023 are the perfect time for some rest and reflection, and also for ...
Last week, we introduced Time Travel as a source of conversation breakdown, our habit of traveling back in time and responding to what happened in the...
We are each not merely traveling our unique life’s path; in many ways, we are the path itself.
Throughout our lives, we blaze a uniquely individual t...
Impliference is not a real word. I made it up, but it’s a real thing, and it's dangerous.
Have you ever found yourself in a difficult conversation an...
