Posts under ‘Bio-Social Nature’

TED.com has exploded in popularity as an online place to hear and see ideas from really interesting people from the around the world. Now that TED.com has licensed their name to encourage independent TED-like conferences, us locals can also participate in person.
Last Thursday April 26th, a group of distinguished speakers and over one hundred attendees [...]

Last week I held a very basic self-defense workshop for the City of Calgary Waterworks division. Now some of you might be wondering why a leadership coach / consultant would teach a self-defense course. First of all, it’s fun, but second of all as the Olympics show us, intense physical challenges teach us something deeply [...]

Here is something that makes the Holocaust possible:
“Another factor that reduces self-control and fosters the crossing of moral boundaries is a certain kind of mental state. This state is marked by a very concrete narrow, rigid way of thinking, with the focus on the here and now, on the details of what one is doing. [...]

I would answer, “Well of course, I’m a flexible and adaptable person,” and be done with the question. But what if being an adaptive leader is a continuous struggle to help oneself and the group meet complex life challenges that are often beyond the group’s capabilities? Upon second thought, maybe it’s a question I’m [...]

Here is a short , but deeply personal expression of Diane Benscoter describing her experience of being inside a cult.

One might easily dismiss anyone who once was in a cult, but when she admits to knowing the appeal of killing the other, of genocide, it’s worth stopping and thinking: what about me is susceptible to [...]

Checkout Banff Centre’s Leadership Compass for my latest article titled “Three Ways NOT to Respond When Lost“. Excerpt:
“Last summer I was hiking with my friends around a lake in Alberta’s Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. The day was beautiful with plenty of great conversations. Then someone mentioned that the lake was no longer in sight. Not [...]

Let’s face it. Conventional economic theory needs a major overhaul. I’m not here to debate Keynesian or Friedmann economics because that isn’t necessarily the most significant challenge. The most significant challenge is that economics has become the dominant mode of dealing with opportunities and threats on a global scale and the field has no idea [...]

When times are good, it’s easy to be generous, patient, and honest. Unfortunately, the ease with which these virtues are attained leads to a kind of surface-level “goodness”. Can one be said to be courageous when the courage is never called upon? Who is an honest person that has never had to choose between his [...]

Do you know the fable of the Little Red Hen? The little red hen gets no help to plant, nurture, harvest the seed. Nor does she get any help to grind the wheat or bake the bread, but when she asks who will eat the bread, everyone shows up.
In the building of the Brooklyn [...]