Chat GPT and Pink Floyd Team Up To Give Us Their Take on Organizational Systems Thinking.

Training and Development are different. How?

Check out the news on our new Rootstock Platform website. Legacy thinking works!

GIve outside leadership hires a chance to thrive.

Here are five key reasons we approach organizational development with legacy thinking.

Here are five key reasons we approach organizational development with legacy thinking.

Here are five key reasons we approach organizational development with legacy thinking.

People want humble leaders. Here's why. 

It’s easy to miss this hard truth - sometimes you are the problem.

It’s 2021. It’s still hard. Time to get serious about self-care.

Go out empowered. Here are five ways.

There is a crisis of mentorship. Like, it’s hardly happening. I coach so many great leaders with so much to give. Conversely, I talk with so many up-and-coming leaders, who need so much. Where’s the disconnect? And what can you do about it?

It is with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of Michael Rodenberg’s new book: BRIDGE THE GAP. Below is the forward I wrote.

I am so proud of my client, a leader of leaders, and friend.

I coach a lot of leaders. Some have fared better than others this year. I’m not judging anyone. 2020 was/is a beast. Even so, some have handled this year better than others. As I sit here the day before Thanksgiving I’ve given some thought as to what made the difference between the leaders who held their own and thrived and those who lost some ground.

It was a tech startup coming out of Northwestern University. I met the founder through a mutual acquaintance. We were both young and ambitious—and rather full of ourselves.

No one is making you do it. You just know it’s time. Something in your gut is just telling you to go on a Leader Journey.

Then, with all the glee of a child who was just given a crisply wrapped package on Christmas morning, he ripped open the cards, pulled one out and pulled it closer to his face. After inspecting closely he yelled out “Yes! You know it!” He then looked at me, smiled with pride, and handed me a card—President.

Unfounded panic and foolish ideas grow in the dark. Stay close to credible sources. There are experts. Depend on them. Take guidelines seriously and keep in step with them.

So there I was. This city kid living on 10 acres and surrounded by farm fields. No dumpsters to dive, no old buildings to break into, no base kids to get in trouble with. It was just my brothers and me in the middle-of-nowhere and the opportunity to Take New Ground.

Are you in the midst of developing your next generation of leaders? What will it take for you to thrive as you raise them up and prepare to hand-off the reins?