Tag Archives: Microsoft

Critical Decision Making Part 1 – Calmness, Clarity, Courage

 (This is the first in a weekly series to support leaders and organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Share this with your leadership team or decision-making group to shape the path to better decisions.) Best wishes,  MDB) A Sound Decision-making Process Is a ‘Life Preserver’ This pandemic and the aftermath will likely present a […]

Building Bridges of Understanding in Polarized Teams, Organizations, and Communities

The World Ahead   In 2007, I had a unique opportunity to sit in a small group for two days and observe one of the world’s leading futurists paint a picture of the year 2025. We are more than halfway there and I see the wisdom of his vision of the trends and emerging realities of our […]

Leaders, Managers, and the Right Thing

Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker, Leading authority on organizations Every organization’s leadership team has the continuing opportunity and challenge to: organize the business, nonprofit, or agency for learning, facilitate the aligned contributions of employees and volunteers, and be a beacon of conviction, clarity, and confidence that guides […]

Leadership and Integrity: the Healthy Heart of the Organization

An organization that never had a non-white employee was sued for racial discrimination and ordered to hire three African-American men who had been rejected as applicants. Although now employed with a fair salary, the collective hostility of the existing employees toward the three men resulted in the silent treatment to shun them. Except for  minimal […]

Leadership and Organizational Transformation

Organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast. ~ Peter Drucker, Leading Authority on Organizational Development When I picked up a copy of Fast Company last month for some airplane reading, I became completely captivated by the unfolding story of a first-time CEO boldly leading a radical transformation of one of the 21st century’s largest technology organizations, […]