Patrick Lencioni thinks that the reason passion-driven leaders and their social sector organizations underperform and their for-profit performance-driven counterparts are lacking in compassion is the acceptance of mediocrity and lower standards on both sides of the equation.  (See Pat’s Point of View April 2009.) Now that I’ve accumulated enough experience on both sides of the [...]

Here’s a practice for creating a culture where people cooperate to develop solutions on the ground. In following with the theme of leader-as-host, smart rules are an alternative to adding more structures and procedures to an already complex environment. Smart rules are the set of simple yet powerful principles that define the approach to the [...]