Author Archives: Susan Szpakowski
Social Innovation Is Code for…
It may sound promising and exciting, or it may sound vague and trendy, but if you tune in to the right channel, the phrase social innovation starts to make a… Read the article →
Resilience
We lose resilience when we become fractured, fragmented, when the parts lose awareness of the whole. Read the article →
Leadership Movement: ALIA in the Ohio News
“Ever since the earliest entrepreneurs began carving P&L statements on cave walls, business people have looked for a better way to do whatever it is they do.” Thus begins a… Read the article →
Reality Check: ALIA in the Nova Scotia News
The editor of Atlantic Canada’s leading business magazine shares her impressions of the ALIA Summer Institute in Ohio. “The astronaut John Glenn was an Ohio native. People always asked him… Read the article →
The Lotus and The Weave
Beautifully integrated and presented, these new guidebooks document leadership practices (The Lotus) and process templates (The Weave) for sustainability practitioners. They were developed by master’s students in the Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability program… Read the article →
Letting Go of Pretense
Behind all the ways we try to appear competent, confident, spiritual, or authentic is an ordinary and naked way of being. In a new ALIA video, Alan Sloan talks about how mindfulness keeps us honest—even to ourselves. Read the article →
Platforms for Transformation
Peter [Senge] concluded his story-telling this way: “The changes that are needed are happening. They are emerging all around us. For me personally, now is the time to watch what’s emerging, to leverage it, and disseminate it.” Read the article →
How Do Warriors Play?
We may think that warriorship is serious business, the opposite of creativity. We may think that play is frivolous, something that takes place after work, only among children, or only with crayons and markers. But what if real warriorship is play, and real play is an act of serious courage? Read the article →
Cracking the Complexity Code: Resources
“The industrial age fostered an approach and leadership style well-suited to tackling tough engineering problems. Break it down, analyze the parts, monitor the process for efficiency, and measure predetermined outcomes. Sometimes this is exactly the best approach to organizational and social challenges as well. But not always. In fact, the over-application of a mechanistic approach just makes matters worse.” Read the article →
HBR: Start your Day with a Ritual
“His power as a warrior came from his patience, precision, attention to subtlety, concentration, and his reverence for the moment.” Read the article →
