Psychologist Carl Jung distinguishes our lives in halves. He states that the first half of our life is the process of individuation. This is where most of the energies of our family of origin, our educational systems, our institutions, our social norms, and most anything else focuses their attention, effort, and energies. [...]

Leaders live in the gap created by the current reality as perceived, and the preferred future as conceived. These tensions that are self created or given to us by others, ask us questions of how we will be responsible to the entire equation that the gap creates. We are commanded - whether internally [...]

I was listening to a leader speak about the ebb and flow, or uneven progress within a particular project he was assigned. He was frustrated with what he felt were long delays in achieving results. The coordination of a matrixed work environment that had dotted lines of accountability and alignment was proving to [...]