The day I met my mentor, Dr. Fernando Flores, he said to me: “Leadership is too narrow and too much about individual commitment and willpower.” As I contemplated this blow to my up-until-then identity of a somewhat-leadership-expert, a new world opened up to me… the world of contingencies, emergences, and accidents. I learned that to… Continue reading Leadership is Insufficient: a Case for Co-Inventing 2020
Voyage Denver Magazine Feature on Kari Granger Founder of TGN Consulting, Kari Granger, was recently featured in Voyage Denver Magazine. as a part of their Trailblazer Series. The interview covered a broad range of topics but highlighted how Kari got to where she is today and what has been most important to her along that… Continue reading Life and Work with Kari Granger: Magazine Feature
Voyage Denver Magazine Feature on Kari Granger Founder of TGN Consulting, Kari Granger, was recently featured in Voyage Denver Magazine. as a part of their Trailblazer Series. The interview covered a broad range of topics but highlighted how Kari got to where she is today and what has been most important to her along that… Continue reading Life and Work with Kari Granger: Magazine Feature
Where Does Your Future Live? Doug Fisher The future has an impact on us. It affects how we feel and the actions we take. It’s not what we have had in the past, but how the future looks to us that has the greater impact. For example, imagine a person who earns $50,000 per… Continue reading Where Does Your Future Live?
The future has an impact on us. It affects how we feel and the actions we take. It’s not what we have had in the past, but how the future looks to us that has the greater impact. For example, imagine a person who earns $50,000 per year and sees that next year he… Continue reading Where Does Your Future Live?
I’d like to speak about creating 2019. Many people I have spoken with have given up making New Year’s resolutions; it seems we humans are largely ineffective in changing habits (you can read more about how to do this in previous blogs). That said, many people create goals for the coming year. Some people create… Continue reading Resolve to Make No More New Year’s Resolutions
As a leadership coach, by and large my clients hire me because they want to achieve something that they’re unable to do on their own. Through coaching, we relax the constraints and limitations, as well as introduce new ways of being and acting, as well an accountability structure. The work is generally sufficient to achieve… Continue reading Get a “Panda” + 9 More Ways to Replace Bad Habits With Good Ones
Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter Doug Fisher A study by researchers at Stanford University found that people who frequently switch between several streams of media (e.g. email, internet, text messaging, instant messenger, social networking, etc.) do not perform as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time. The researchers kept looking… Continue reading Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
A study by researchers at Stanford University found that people who frequently switch between several streams of media (e.g. email, internet, text messaging, instant messenger, social networking, etc.) do not perform as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time. The researchers kept looking for the benefit in multitasking and couldn’t… Continue reading Loving Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
58 minutes United States Air Force Academy: National Character & Leadership Symposium February 2017 Drawing on Victor Frankl’s insights in “A Man’s Search for Meaning”: “The warrior ethos cannot be pursued as an end in and of itself; rather, it must ensue as the natural consequence of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater… Continue reading Cultivating the Warrior Ethos
