Creative Leadership Coaching

One of the purposes of this blog is to encourage fresh thinking with respect to how we can most effectively collaborate to achieve worthy goals.  According to leadership gurus, James Kouzes and Barry Posner, getting extraordinary things done in organizations in the current age (often called the “innovation age”) requires leaders who can:

Articulate a vision of the [...]

In a recent article, Chris Rice, CEO of BlessingWhite reminds us that the quality of leadership becomes especially important in challenging times. Keeping your employees energized and enthused, and retaining your best employees best positions our organizations to adapt and respond to changing conditions.  Yet, if surveys of employee satisfaction and commitment are any indication, more of [...]

In her study of history and anthropology, cultural historian Riane Eisler found that cultures tended to group themselves roughly around two attractor points, which she termed the “dominator model” and the “partnership model.”  In the dominator model of social relations, the social structure is generally hierarchic and authoritarian, and maintained through fear and the hope [...]

Welcome to The Partnership Leader!  As the title suggests, this blog discusses leadership — in particular, a Partnership approach to leadership. The term, Partnership (with a capital P), was coined by cultural historian Riane Eisler and describes an emerging type of leadership that is both very applicable to the dynamic world in which all of our organizations presently operate, and intrinsically rewarding [...]