Below Julio Olalla offers a review of the book “The Crash Course.” I wholeheartedly endorse his assessment that this is a book that everyone should read. It will change your view of the future that is coming, and open up a bigger set of possibilities of how to cope with it. Bob Dunham “THE CRASH COURSE“, The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment, by Chris Martenson, PhD., John
Read more →By Julio Olalla and Robert Dunham Major dislocations in how our societies operate in the world are coming, and we have seen a preview with the global financial recession of 2008. Despite widespread scientific analyses of global issues including the causes of global warming, depletion of fisheries, reaching peak oil while energy demand is spiking, and the consumption of resources approaching the limits of the planet, there have
Read more →In many companies today, all over the world, you still hear the term ‘soft skills’ referred to by leaders, managers and HR professionals. It’s a myth that just won’t die. Actually, there is NO such thing as soft skills. The so-called soft skills people refer to such as the ability to communicate effectively , develop alliances, enroll others into a vision, navigate uncertainty with ease, coach team members,
Read more →Is your world full of possibilities? Or do you find you mostly see limits to your possibilities? For example, what do you think of the word “organizations” or the word “corporate”? I find leaders and coaches have an emotional reaction to such words and, in fact, often have a whole story of limits that they provoke. The common sense of our culture is that words have meanings, and,
Read more →May Leong is a graduate of the Generative Leadership Program. We are publishing articles telling the stories of what happened in the lives of our program graduates based on their learning in generative leadership. These articles will eventually be published in a book. FROM ‘HARD WORK’ TO LEADERSHIP By May Leong Earlier in my career, as a new leader in a new market, I became Executive Director of the first
Read more →What is it to learn? When we lead, innovate, or propose new behaviors and actions with others we are on the path of learning. The automatic response from people in our culture to new action is to take on “doing,” doing what they already know. We live with the common approach that we get a theory or concept, and then we “apply” it. And actions of this type
Read more →By Bob Dunham In the common sense of our culture a leader is one who has power, who gathers power, and who exercises it in a way that affects the futures of others. In the Institute for Generative Leadership we see this interpretation as inadequate to understand leadership well or to grow leadership capability to build a future we want to participate in. Although leadership certainly includes the
Read more →The concern for any enterprise is its level of performance, and for most members of the enterprise is a concern for how to elevate the level of performance. This elevation can be to fulfill the ambition for growth, to meet a changing marketplace, to match competition, or even for the sake of survival or to stay even in its outcomes and prospects. But over time this elevation
Read more →The reason we have interest in Next Generation Leadership is because the last generation of leadership interpretations were inadequate. They didn’t deliver the goods of enabling actual leadership and leadership results, however captivating the leadership framework and stories. Leadership is a field that needs some clarity and usefulness where we outgrow our appetite for “next generation leadership” because the last generation didn’t produce satisfaction and effectiveness. We need
Read more →By Julio Olalla and Robert Dunham Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot We live in an era of global scale. Our technologies and our massive global population accumulate and magnify our decisions and choices until they affect the entire planet. At the global level we now have concerns about changing the weather through global
Read more →By Julio Olalla and Robert Dunham We live in a historical era confronted with unavoidable issues of global scale, issues that have never been faced before in the history of humanity. Global warming is shifting weather patterns, with many warnings about severe consequences. In the face of urgent calls for global reductions of carbon dioxide emissions China is building two coal fired electricity plants a week. The debate about
Read more →Terrie is a guest author on our blog, and shares her lessons in leadership. We will be featuring articles by graduates of the Generative Leadership Program in which they share the results in their lives from generative leadership. These articles will eventually become part of a book on generative leadership: leadership lessons in paying attention by Terrie Lupberger Looking back, the signs were all there but I failed to acknowledge
Read more →I wrote the letter below on 9/17/2001 to the generative leadership learning community, since I was in New York on 9/11, and in the World Trade Center minutes before the first plane hit. It’s reflections of the change and challenge of 9/11 still ring true for me… Thank You for Your Care I extend my thanks to the many of you who contacted us with concern for me during
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