• Learning Systems Design from Dead Poets

    Learning Systems Design from Dead Poets

    “Why do I stand up here?  I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.  You see the world looks very different up here … Just when you think...

  • Creative Collaboration at Pixar

    Creative Collaboration at Pixar

    A couple of years ago, the Harvard Business Review published an article on creativity and collaboration at Pixar.  According to Ed Catmull (President of Pixar), the trick to fostering collective creativity...

  • The Golden Hour

    The Golden Hour

    “There is a golden hour between life and death. If you are critically injured you have less than 60 minutes to survive. You might not die right then; it may be three days or two weeks later, but...

  • Structuring the Development of People

    Structuring the Development of People

    I have written before about the importance of the structure and physical space in driving the development of right behaviors in an organization.  On my last trip to Japan, I was again stuck by the way...

  • Tribes

    Tribes

    David Logan researches and writes on Tribal Leadership.  Interesting topic and I think we have much to learn from his work when it comes to better understanding how groups of people naturally organize...