Hard Truths About Digital Power

by | Feb 25, 2023

This week I brought a knife to a gunfight. Sean Connery’s beat cop Jimmy Malone from The Untouchables was echoing in my head this week as I read through my newsfeed. In the United States, court filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit...

Beyoncé and the Risks and Rewards of Imitating Innovation

by | Feb 17, 2023

Grammy voters just might break your soul if you’re a long-time Beyoncé fan. Earlier this month, Beyoncé, arguably the most influential person in music, broke the record for most Grammy wins, earning her 29th, 30th, 31st, and 32nd Grammy awards for Renaissance, an...

Want to make a better world? Tell me more.

by | Feb 4, 2023

I make my living helping people make sense of complicated, complex, and often contentious stuff. Yet, of all the presentations, workshops and coaching I’ve done, one exercise stands above them all.  I call it Talking to Humans.  It’s a deceptively simple...

Why do we accept leaders who make enemies of their people?

by | Jan 28, 2023

As leadership strategies go, arson is an odd choice. It takes so much energy to spark, kindle and fuel oppositional anger, and the result is always the same: scarred and depleted people and places. Lessons from the field of war that we’ve transferred to the management...

Time for a little wicked thinking

by | Jan 22, 2023

It was the imitation Alex Colvilles that did me in. While mindlessly scrolling through Facebook one afternoon I came across a friend’s playful experiment with an AI image generator, a program that scrapes the Internet to learn and then combine everything you asked for...