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Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival: October 2016

Welcome to Leadership & Change Magazine, the blog about Positive Leadership, Culture, and Positive Change!  I am excited to host this month’s Leadership Development Carnival, initiated by Lead Change Group. All these blogging professionals share great wisdom – so please take the time to read their posts below, reflect, and apply what works in your situation. This Leadership Development Carnival is a treasure chase ... Read More

From the Inside Out: the human dynamics of sustainability

Graham Williams is a South-African author and consultant and a regular guest writer for this blog. He’s one of my favorites as his articles are always a pleasure to read, well researched, and very inspiring. Graham and I share a deep wish to contribute to a better world and Graham just published another book to help organizations become more sustainable! ... Read More

South African Positive Power

I spent two weeks in South Africa where I was invited to provide my Culture Change Leadership Workshop to South African consultants and HR managers. When I watched the movie “Long walk to freedom” about Nelson Mandela, I realized that it had been only 26 years ago that apartheid was abolished. Such a short time! In spite of all their ... Read More

A Quantum-Inspired Perspective on Organization Development

Have you ever heard of quantum storytelling? It is a new way of viewing organization development. Led by David Boje, of New Mexico State University, and Tonya L. Henderson, a scholar-practitioner with Gly Solutions, a group of authors from Europe and the USA collaborated to produce a collection of readings that explore human organizations using quantum physics inspired concepts. Their ... Read More

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What To Do With a Frustrating Boss

Guest post by David Dye. I sat across from the Executive Vice President and made my case. I suggested the company change the way it handled a specific process and made my five-point argument as to why it was a good idea. The VP listened, grimaced, and then grinned. “If only it were that easy.” “But it is that easy,” ... Read More

How Forgiving My Father Led to Leadership By Kimunya Mugo

Follow me on Blogarama Guest post by Kimunya Mugo. ‘Down But Not Out’ is a book I came about as I searched for a way to find healing for my wounded heart. I have been blessed with an awesome family: a loving wife and great kids. Yet, I still felt like I had a big void in my heart that ... Read More

Four Role Models of Whole Person Organizational Cultures

Guest post by Jerry Wagner. The Institute for Inspired Organizational Cultures (IOC) aims to develop a global community of leaders who are advocates for organizational cultures of wellbeing and happiness. In addition to IOC’s self-paced video lecture program about positive leadership and culture, IOC-founder Dr. Gerald Wagner also strives to shine a spotlight on companies and individuals doing amazing things ... Read More

Mike Henry on Lead Change Group:“We can all make a positive difference. We don’t need permission”

The Lead Change Group is a global, virtual community dedicated to instigating a leadership revolution, one leader at a time. Mike Henry, Sr. founded the group in 2009 to instigate a leadership revolution. It became one of the most socially shared leadership blogs and they published a multi-author book about character-based leadership, The Character-Based Leader. Since 2014, Becky Robinson and ... Read More

Unconditional Leadership: How Well do you Lead?

Guest post by Tal Shnall. As a leader or a manager, do you sometimes find yourself having a strong opinion about someone you personally supervise? Do you have an employee on your team who is underperforming and also, the relationship between you and that employee has not been very effective? Susie’s promotion I work as the Guest Services Manager and ... Read More