Musings, stories and insights on leadership practices from over 30 years of lived experience as a senior executive management consultant

After three decades as a senior executive management consultant working in boutique firms all the way to being a partner in a large premier global firm I think I have learned a thing or two about effective leadership and organizational development practices. Today such practices have become part of mature management science curriculum taught in higher education. However when I started my journey my mentors were progressive thought leaders exploring new thinking in leadership and organization transformation: Kouzes, Posner, Bennis, Argyris, Heifetz, dePree, Beckhard, Nadler, Block, Leider, Tushman, Schein, Jaques, Senge, Drucker and others.  Through countless client engagements I have established an informed confidence in knowing what works and what doesn’t through curiosity, examined experience, and direct involvement consulting to real executives within a wide variety of organizations across many industries in several countries.

While this is regrettable today, it seems learning and reflection has to come in bite-size pieces that are pushed in front of our eyeballs and pre-frontal cortex with the hope of attaining momentary relevance and application. Perhaps then, such brief pieces of insight can then act as seeds planted in a fertile mind and heart to blossom later into a fully mature practice a leader embraces as his or her own.

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