Growth at Work
Podcasts, Webinars, and Articles
In this September 2021 webinar for Emory University's Goizueta Business School, I explore the following:
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How the stories we tell ourselves tell us where we need to grow.
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How our "Triumph Stories" and our "Disaster Stories" keep each other alive and well.
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How we can get to a point where our old stories no longer author us, but rather we author new stories.
"The Professor's Predicament: How Can I Have My Expertise Without it Having Me?"
Academy of Management Learning & Education
In this 2022 article I explore:
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How "knowing" keeps us stuck where we are.
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How our assumptions anchor our behaviors.
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How we can use the Immunity to Change process to open up bigger worlds.
"Flock Leadership: Understanding and Influencing Emergent Collective Behavior"
The Leadership Quarterly
In this article I explore:
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How person-to-person interaction norms shape group capacity.
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How some norms drive technical capacity while others drive adaptive capacity.
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How leadership can be understood as influencing group norms.
In this article I explore:
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How to lead incremental improvement at familiar tasks.
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How to lead discovery and transformation.
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[This brief article is an invited synopsis of my Leadership Quarterly work on Flock Leadership.]
In this article I explore:
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How modern scholars mis-apply 18th-century political philosophy.
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How the assumptions anchoring enlightenment-era republicanism do not translate to the workplace.
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How enlightenment-era liberalism is a better model for workplace citizenship.
In this article I explore:
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How competencies erode when companies meet across several markets.
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How inter-firm rivalry is generally dampened when companies meet across numerous markets.
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How inter-firm rivalry is occasionally intensified when companies meet across numerous markets.
In this article I explore:
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How competitive dynamics are affected by the frequency with which U.S. domestic airlines meet one another across multiple routes.
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How multi-market contact affects price rivalry and service rivalry differently.
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How multi-market contact affects price rivalry and marketing rivalry differently.