August 15, 2011 » 8:22 am
A few weeks ago, I was at a strategy meeting at Rebecca Petzel’s house in San Francisco, where I spotted this beautiful “chore wheel.” Rebecca lives in a big house with several housemates, and in order to make sure the house stays clean, they divvy up and rotate the responsibilities, using this wheel to keep [...]
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August 10, 2011 » 8:51 am
In 2006, I was invited to give the keynote at WikiSym in Odense, Denmark. Since I was going to be in town, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal generously organized a blogger dinner for me in Copenhagen, which gave me the chance to meet many local entrepreneurs and changemakers. One of the many, many highlights for me was meeting [...]
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August 8, 2011 » 8:01 am
I’ve been watching two former clients struggle with inclusive leadership from afar, and I’m preparing to re-engage with one of them. This stuff is really hard, and it takes intense commitment and constant practice to shift. The difficulties stem from two problems: An overly simplistic mental model of what it means to be inclusive or [...]
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