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Community, The Structure of Belonging
If we want a change in culture, the work is to change the conversation.
What Norway can teach us about high performance
“Zero tolerance for jerks” and five other things we can learn from a winning team.
A message of love and respect from the president
“Between hate and love, I know that love will prevail.” – GCC President Bob Pura
Learning to communicate to reduce stress, create connection and resolve conflict.
The language we use and how we use it provides a powerful means to not only resolve conflicts, but to go even further to create true connection.
Tools of oppression vs. tools of liberation
Last week Austin Kleon posted a chart on his Tumblr page that he drew after reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Why the longer road is often the shortest path
The fastest way to change is to slow down and engage your stakeholders first.
What is the opposite of fear?
“We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear is the only thing capable of our undoing.” – Sam Killermann
Power and Love. A Theory and Practice of Social Change
Power and love are the yin and yang of organizing. Neither one is effective without its “opposite.”
Re-assesing assessment as a tool to improve performance
Measure what you value and people will value what you measure.
Learning to give priority to what is best for all
A story about learning to overcome our tendency to see challenges as us vs. them and to instead see what is best for all.
Fact: older workers easily outperform the youngsters
Older workers are mentally slow, technologically backward, burned out, etc. Right? Wrong, wrong, wrong, researchers say. Hire one today, because in fact, they rock on every front.
How to create a social learning environment
A “social learning environment” is an online destination where people can co-create, share, and learn from each other. Jane Hart has a good series on how to build these digital places.
We need a new language for the collaborative age
“Language encodes our thinking,” says Nilofer Merchant in Wired/UK. “To write a new future, we need to use a new language.” For example, what are we doing calling customers “users”?
We are one species on one finite planet
Seeing the whole earth rotating in space tends to tweak your consciousness. A film by the Planetary Collective compiles images of our planet and interviews with the astronauts who shot them.
A healthy company balances five elements
When integrity is woven into your organizational fabric, your company is true at every touchpoint—it’s “branded to the bone,” and the organizational ecosystem is in balance.
