My previous post, “A New Paradigm for Sustainability’, is still rattling around in my head, taking me back to 1996 when I founded a Montessori school, ages 3-12. The Montessori philosophy connected everything in the student’s education to real, practical life application. Subjects intertwined. How can you learn math without language, science without geography? Classrooms [...]

“The word sustainability is overused.” “People don’t know what it means.” “It’s used to describe everything.” I hear discussions about wanting to use a different word – ‘resilience’ is the one in vogue. I personally feel that a new word is not what we need, but a new paradigm in how we think about it [...]

Giving two pyramid workshops in the past two weeks has put me in an introspective mood. The topic of my last blog still lingers – the inability at times to not be able to practice what I preach, to apply the ISIS Method to my own life. Most participants in this last workshop were on teams with [...]

Well, I jinxed my writing streak by commenting on how consistent I have been. In my defense, I have been quite sick – and busy to boot. I spoke for the Florida Creative Alliance yesterday and conducted a two day Building the Pyramid workshop for Lee County last week, all in the midst of being [...]

On the eve of presenting my Innovation workshop, I came back from a dinner meeting to the news that Steve Jobs had died at 56. Sad, and slightly eerie for me, given my topic tomorrow. Rumors abound about the severity of his managerial style, conflicts about some of his tacts, but one thing can never [...]

I had the chance to go to Alaska for a few days. The last thing I needed to be doing was taking a break from work – that Economy side of my Compass. Yet, it was also the thing I needed to be doing for the wellness side of my Compass. I headed West. I’m [...]

Feedback is a topic in all my classes. In the indicator class, I speak of the need for feedback as they relate to qualitative indicators – what do people desire, how do they feel, what do they value? In systems we explore the concept of feedback loops and how they can be important places to [...]

I was looking for a good quote to tweet for my upcoming cultural change class in St Paul (Sept. 22nd) when I came across this one from Peter Drucker: ”Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.” I really like this quote, but it took [...]

I am dividing my time between St. Paul and Tampa these days, teaching classes In both cities. In Tampa, I recently moved from a very walkable community, where pretty much everything I needed or wanted was within a half mile. I miss that terribly. I could not find another place on either side of the Bay [...]

I’m preparing the ads for my upcoming workshop on cultural change and understanding the roles people play in their organizations. As I choose a picture to insert in the ad, I laugh as I recall an ‘Aha’ moment of my own on the topic. My role as an Innovator. I have so many ideas that I have to [...]