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Congratulations Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir! Today, Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir were the first all-female EVA (space walk) in history. In keeping with the historic first, all…

Today’s business environment… fast paced change, disruptive technologies, new business models, an emphasis on metrics, measures and analytics… is quickly coalescing into the new normal.  This accelerated way of operating…

What is an HRO? Research by a variety of experts, including Karl Weick, Kathleen Sutcliffe, and Karleen Roberts amongst others has driven the evolution  of our understanding over 3 decades.…

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has been in the news (1,2, 3) routinely over the last decade and not in a good way. This negative attention is due to several…

I believe wholeheartedly in values. I respect them as one of the core components of an organization’s brand (ideology, values1) so much that they served as the basis of 8…

[vc_row 0=””][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=””]There are as many “Leadership Lessons” as there are leaders reading and writing leadership books. We all want to know what will make the difference for our organization.…

When I think about how a group of smart, driven, and visionary people accomplished the impossible 49 years ago, I marvel at what they achieved with the nascent technologies they…

Collaboration, like innovation and entrepreneurial, gets bandied about in management books, articles, blogs as a key ingredient in the recipe of continuous improvement, growth, and high-reliability. And it is! But…

Engineers and Humans. Destined to share the same world and yet look at it through very different lenses.