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Wrote an article for the Business Agility Institutes‘s Emergence magazine, published in their special April 2023 issue (No Matter What the Future Brings, Volume 4, Issue 2) spotlighting the five domains and eighteen capabilities of business agility. My topic was polarity management, the essential job of every leader. Appreciation to Laura Powers and Christopher Ruz…
Enjoyed a lively hour-and-a-half conversation with FirstHuman’s Richard Atherton, discussing work, life and the power of organizational self-management. Link here: https://www.firsthuman.com/podcast/241-beyond-empowerment-with-doug-kirkpatrick
Spent a fab hour talking about organizational self-management with Christian Wandeler, founder of Semco Style USA, and his cohort of engaged learners, including Semco Style Certified Expert Wade Okinaka. https://semcostyle.us/
A team of self-managed brewers in Davis, California is quietly making the best beer in America, based on a competition of 2,192 breweries and 9,680 beers from all fifty states plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. It’s been an pleasure to work with them. KCRA Sacramento newscast about the competition is here: https://bit.ly/3bpcIDE….
I pulled up my copy of Josh Levine’s new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love on a Monday morning, and it made my day a great Monday. Josh speaks with an authoritative voice honed by years of serious work with culture leaders. He weaves together resonant strands of thought leadership…
Honored to be tapped to serve as guest editor of the third issue (June 2021), with the theme of humanizing business. Substantive and powerful stories from gifted writers in the field of organizational transformation, including Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini, Dawna Jones, Jay Goldstein, Rod Collins, Lisa Gill, Susan Basterfield, Brooke Erol and others.
