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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Read more →Once upon a time long ago in a fair land, people worked hard, saved, and lived a good life. In the United States they called it the American Dream, that any hard working, diligent citizen could create a middle class life. Then things changed, and real estate began
Read more →It’s funny how we can be next to someone, but not be with them. It makes me sad to see couples in restaurants sharing a meal, but in silence, not even sharing eye contact. And we have all had the experience of having our attention wander when
Read more →I had the privilege and pleasure to spend a couple of weeks in retreat in a nature preserve in southern Chile in December. I was staying in quite a nice house, but it was one separated by forest from the few others in the preserve, which is in a
Read more →How do we lead and help people when the world breaks? On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plants experienced a severe earthquake, followed by a tsunami. TheNew York Times reported on March 26: “In the country that gave the world the word tsunami,
Read more →In the story of “The Emperor Has No Clothes” a slick seller convinced the emperor that the “invisible,” and expensive, clothes that he was given showed up as gorgeous raiment to the eyes of onlookers. When the emperor strode into public with his new “clothes” a child
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