• Ability, Disability or Differently-Abled? What’s Your Worldview?

    We are more and more likely to encounter people who are different from us in some way. It could be physical, sexual orientation, gender, skin color, political or cultural. Or it could be with respect to what many consider ability or disability, or what we might call differently-abled. Each of us, when we meet a

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  • A Simple Strategy to Amp Up Team Performance

    How do you amp up team performance? By creating a meeting structure that consistently changes the quality and power of team meetings and therefore team performance. In November 2018, three people from one of our larger clients, Sanford Health, came to one of the two-day Art of Hosting Intensives we have created. These two-day intensives

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  • Clash of Worldviews at the Heart of Cultural Conflict?

    On a TV news program recently, I heard a guest suggest that what we are experiencing now in the United States (and elsewhere, I would add) is a clash of worldviews. The speaker contrasted this with the clash of civilizations that Samuel Huntington suggested we are experiencing. Samuel P. Huntington, in his 1993 article “The

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  • Cognitive Dissonance to Creativity

    Have you ever been in a conversation with someone who had very different views on the subject you have been talking about and, as the conversations ends, they ask you to “just think about it”?  Meaning, they want you to reflect on and consider their perspective. Or, maybe you said it to them. That request

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  • The Sweet Spot Between Relational Leadership, Work and Learning for High Performance Teams

    High performance teams are highly valued and often difficult to cultivate in the world of teams and team development. And to be clear, not every team needs to be a high-performance team to deliver results. However, leading edge, innovative organizations interested in attracting and retaining highly motivated employees want to encourage high performance teams, and

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  • When Time is the Enemy

      Time seems to be speeding up. While there is some debate on whether this is true, there is much less debate on whether the rate of change is speeding up. Influenced by increasing globalization, 24 hour news cycles, competitive pressures, rapidly changing technology, emergence of the new and accelerating obsolescence (planned or otherwise) of

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