Dwight Eisenhower gave us great food for thought when he defined leadership as “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Still, the recipe for effective leadership is one of the most elusive questions in the worlds of relationships and organizational behavior. It’s safe to…
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If you’re like a lot of people, you’re tired of being told you have biases. But you do. We all do. Some of those biases affect the way we solve problems. They can be so entrenched that we remain stuck in well-worn patterns of thinking. The result is missed opportunities. Three innovative professors at the…
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In the words of psychiatrist R. D. Laing, we live in a moment of history where change is so fast-paced that we “begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” Change is not just faster. It’s also exploding in quantity and magnitude. Experts say we can expect more change in our lifetimes…
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Every day we see headlines on how Covid-19 continues to affect our lives. When, and how, will schools return to in-person instruction? When, and how, will businesses get back on track? What will the “new normal” even look like? Regardless of their stations in life, people around the globe are sharing in the adversity. Some…
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In ways most of us never imagined, the Covid pandemic has disrupted virtually every facet of our lives. It’s changed how we buy and sell products and services. It’s changed how we interact with customers and clients (not to mention our own families). It’s changed how we collaborate with colleagues and team members. It’s affected…
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If you’re like millions of other people riding the pandemic roller coaster, you’re re-thinking your world of work. You’re likely using technology in ways you didn’t imagine a year ago. Your morning commute may be no more than those 25 steps from the kitchen table to that folding table you set up in the guest…
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We’re living in a world where civil conversation seems to be a lost art. People are polarized on virtually every issue imaginable. And the talking heads on cable news seem determined to out shout and out insult each other. One-way social media rants merely add to the poison. Fred Dust wants to change that trajectory.…
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When I was a boy of about five, I loved thumbing through my grandmother’s nature books. One day I came across a full color photo of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. I was fascinated by the image, and my grandmother gave me a brief tutorial on metamorphosis. It was the biggest word I’d ever…
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What object is several times larger than most homes, can comfortably accommodate enough people to populate a small town, weighs more than 400 tons, and can fly? The answer, of course, is a jumbo jet. By employing laws of physics discovered by Newton, Bernoulli, and others, the jet is able to overcome its own mammoth…
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