October 4, 2009
We received this story from an attendee at a recent keynote presentation which demonstrates that a simple and common image can show decisions in a different light. Here’s the story: In an Executive Program Review today, I used clipart of a person walking around with…
September 6, 2009
Truth from our own point of view – truth only each of us as individuals can bring – is the essence of intelligent disobedience. Packaging it, selling it, promoting it and bringing your truth to the “pool of information” that is used to make important…
August 25, 2009
Recently in a legal document I encountered a section titled “Reasonableness”. It read as follows: “Wherever a written consent from a Unit Holder is required it shall not be unreasonably withheld.” That struck me as wholly subjective and therefore rather unusual in a legal document….
August 6, 2009
Leadership requires an extraordinary degree of skill and integrity – the ability to know when to intervene, when to teach, when to coach, when to provide feedback and in what venue to provide all of this. Leadership requires very deliberate and thoughtful consideration of those…
July 26, 2009
Sometimes a sound can trigger the needed reaction! After delivering a conference keynote on intelligent disobedience a delegate approached me to share this story… As a business analyst at a major hospital, he was frustrated by project sponsorship that wasn’t stepping to the plate to…
June 1, 2009
Welcome to the Intelligent Disobedience blog – designed to help leaders excel by discussing how and when to push back, bend rules (with communication and integrity!) and save our businesses from themselves! “Intelligent Disobedience” is understanding how and when to “say no” to leaders and…