Creating a Culture That Supports Disruptive Innovation in a Post-COVID World
Workplace from Facebook sponsored this article. All content is entirely mine. We’ve been living in a world turned upside down by a pandemic, going into the winter with dire predictions of the next surge. Yet, there’s hope in sight with the development and distribution...
5 Ways To Change Your Leadership In This Crisis
Originally published on LinkedIn. Like many of you, the events of the past few weeks have thrown me flat on my butt. My heart goes out to the many people who are dealing with COVID-19 in their families or have lost their jobs. And my soul grieves for the pain that is...
Disruption Learnings from Self-Publishing a Book and Going to Burning Man
This fall I did two things that pushed me far out of my comfort zone: self-publishing my latest book and going to my first Burning Man. These seemingly unrelated adventures have some surprisingly common challenges. Book publishing is an arduous process that requires...
Getting Comfortable with Cultural Change
An Interview with Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President of Oracle Applications Product DevelopmentI recently had the chance to sit down with Steve Miranda who is one of the highest-ranking executives at Oracle. In the interview, Steve describes what it’s like to...
Driving Culture with Instagram
An Interview with Banfield Pet Hospitals President Brian GarishOver the past few months, I’ve gotten to know the team at Banfield Pet Hospitals, a division of Mars, through a speech to their leadership team and some advisory work. During this time, I’ve had a chance...
Truth Drop: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
What's so bad about comfort zones? Have you heard of gezellig? It’s a Dutch concept I learned when living in Amsterdam that embodies the definition of comfort zone. The word is associated with feelings of contentment and warmth that sometimes only comfort zones...