Book Review: Bedtime Stories for Managers

Book Review: Bedtime Stories for Managers

Bedtime Stories for Managers by Henry Mintzberg, published by Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2019 When the opportunity was offered to review Bedtime Stories for Managers, I eagerly accepted. I liked the idea of short stories with corresponding teachings about...

Motherhood: The Ultimate Leadership Model?

Recently, I’ve been refreshing my memory on Kouzes and Posner’s The Leadership Challenge. It dawned on me today that the five practices of exemplary leadership (with all due apologies to the authors) could easily be renamed the five practices of exemplary...
Coaching as a Rite of Passage

Coaching as a Rite of Passage

As I continue through my training in Narrative Coaching, I frequently find myself reflecting on individual phrases used in the instruction, long after class has ended. One such recent prompt was the idea of coaching as a rite of passage. A rite of passage is typically...
Book Review: Servant Leadership In Action

Book Review: Servant Leadership In Action

Servant Leadership In Action (How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results); a collection of essays edited by Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell, published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., March 2018. As someone who unflinchingly believes that real,...