Rarely would I use the word “humorous” to describe the organizational environments in which I’ve worked. In fact, I have found that most leaders see laughter as the antithesis of productivity. If you’re yucking it up, you’re not getting serious…
[Synopsis from my Upcoming Book Called “Amazing Change”] I was born a Baptist preacher’s kid, and never before nor since have I learned so much about being a change warrior. My parents were called to churches that were struggling. Our…
I have a humor blog that I write for baby boomer women called DameNation. My articles are intended to lighten women’s lives through laughter. Thanks to this blog, I’ve become a regular contributor to Huffington Post, where it seems my humor…
Nobody told me the greatest difficulty of aging would be growing older in a world that spins an ugly, sad story about the experience. We live in a time of anti-aging serum, anti-aging vitamins, and anti-aging exercises that are used…
My senior class was the first class in our school’s history to have Senior Skip Day revoked. Not because something we had done, but because a senior the year before had set something on fire. We were livid, filled with…
If you think people are the “soft side” of business, then you may experience difficulty implementing your change agenda. I understand the concept of organizational excellence, where people can be inserted and removed without impacting the team effort. That works for New…
Successful completion of change initiatives is actually rare. Why? Because leaders assume good plans and end states and visuals and reports are change catalysts. They see everything in preparation except the faces that will be implementing that change. I’ve been…
Three years wandering in the desert of, “Why am I here? What is my purpose?” has led me to a new place in life. And I’m glad. But getting here required a journey that included all of the lions and…
I remember him well. He was a six-foot tall, silver-haired male who joined every one of our team meetings and proceeded to point out what was wrong with the change effort being discussed. He did it with authority, and always…
As Halloween approaches I find myself reminiscing about my childhood, when we couldn’t afford store bought costumes. Every other kid was a ghost because most moms had an old sheet out of which she could cut holes for eyes. Of…