The following is an excerpt from The Essentials of Theory U Co-shaping: Grow Innovation Eco-systems By Otto Scharmer The movement of co-shaping focuses on scaling the new while growing and evolving innovation eco-systems for collective impact. The problem with today’s societal eco-systems is the broken feedback loop between the parts and the whole. The essence … More Co-shaping: Grow Innovation Eco-systems

Recently I was listening to the Ray Edwards Show podcast as he interviewed Brian Kurtz, founder of Titan Marketing (you can find the full episode here: http://rayedwards.com/252/). The relatively short amount of time required to listen to this podcast is a craazzzy good investment when you consider the vast amount of history and wisdom shared. … More Top 10 List of the Best – Lost Classics that ‘THEY’ DON’T Want You to Read

That’s exactly what I thought after finishing The Copywriter’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Copy That Sells (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005) by Robert W. Bly. When comparing the crazy amount of value embedded within these pages, to the small price tag I spent on it, I felt as though I had totally and completely … More Total Rip-Off

INTENT THAT IGNITES By Scott Mautz The following is an excerpt from Find the Fire No one overtly chooses to stop learning and growing again, it just kind of happens in the deluge of daily responsibilities (and life). And if it were easy to just kick it into gear again, you would have already done … More INTENT THAT IGNITES [Guest Post]

8 Tips for Riding the Mood Elevator by Larry Senn The Mood Elevator is an illustration of the human condition; it is our moment-to-moment experience of life. We all ride the Mood Elevator every day, take a moment and identify what floor you are on right now. The Mood Elevator map is based on my … More 8 Tips for Riding the Mood Elevator [Guest Post]

The pigs are running the farm. So begins the story of Farmer Able. Everyone on his farm — people and animals alike — are downright downtrodden by him. He’s overbearing and compulsively obsessed with profits and productivity. He’s a typical top-down, power-based manager, forever tallying production numbers in his well-worn ledgers. But the more he pushes … More “Clarice the Cow” – Farmer Able [Guest Post]

(Originally published at greatleadersserve.com) Good Intentions Are Never Enough Virtually every leader has a natural bias… we are either more results-oriented or relationship-oriented. However, the best leaders discipline themselves to value both results and relationships. If your natural tendency is to focus on results, one small step you can take to raise the value of relationships is to stop … More Good Intentions Are Never Enough [Guest Post]