Last week I finished reading Daniel Pink’s DRiVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Understanding motivation seems to be an under explored aspect of leadership studies and action. Given how much…
Tag: identity
Quick Review: It’s Not About The Coffee
I’m catching up this week on many a book review that I haven’t been able to get to in recent months, but here is a leadership book I enjoyed recently from one of…
Self: The Most Pernicious Program of All
Here’s the second post of my re-release of this advent series. This post was originally posted December 1st, 2010. ———————————– This is part two out of three of a mini-blog series on…
Collective Fusion – Resistance is not Futile
I’m re-posting an advent series as we approach Christmas. These posts sparked a lot of discussion last year for me so I’m excited to re-release them. This post was first posted on…
Why I Should Watch More Barbie
….according to my six year old daughter Morgan. So I’ve posted a couple posts already about Barbie, the last being one about identity formation among young girls especially. I thought I’d make…
Barbie, Princesses & Identity Formation
I’m going to rattle off a second straight Barbie themed post, because it’s part of my life stage with a 6 year old daughter right now (never mind that my 3 year…
My Thoughts on Dawn Treader and Identity
Last week I got away for a couple hours to see the new Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie. I wasn’t sure how they would make a good movie out of it,…
Insights Gained From a Dirty Coach
This week there’s been a particular type of coach in the media more than any other week I can recall – that’s a “strength and conditioning” coach. This type of coach is…
Leadership Bermuda Triangles
Do you have situations and dynamics you encounter over the course of working with people or leading where you just get lost? When the topic of getting “lost” comes up most people…