Earlier this week, the London School of Economics and Political Science shared a Q&A that we worked on together about how to scale ideas through networks. While all of the …
In Harvard Business Review: To Change Someone’s Mind, Stop Talking and Listen
This post originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Samar Minallah Khan, the feminist Pakistani anthropologist and filmmaker, was enraged. Local tribal leaders were trading little girls as compensation for their …
The Core of Onlyness
Having first introduced the idea of Onlyness in 2012, in the HBR-published book 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, I haven’t talked about it much in a …
Why The Metric Matters
Around this time last year, my son was coming home with some really (!) disappointing grades. It was driving my husband and I a little crazy cause we knew he …
Belonging Precedes “Doing Stuff”
What Your Organization Needs to Increase Innovation Belonging is a seemingly little thing that shapes everything. We each need to belong. Having a sense of belonging is, in fact, a …
Why Leaders Must Find & Create Belonging
The Secret to Getting Your Ideas Heard & Impacting the World This post originally appeared on Medium. Why are some people able to make a difference, and other people give up …
Want Change? Make Yourself Seen
Why Onlyness is the Key to Overturning Power Structures This post originally appeared on Medium. Think back, and remember the first time you were valued for yourself. Someone saw your shining capacity …
Is Denise Young Smith of Apple Right?
Could 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men constitute a diverse group? That’s what Denise Young Smith, Apple’s Diversity exec, recently suggested and then, because of the Internet blowback, had to apologize for saying. …
How to Effect Change at Work When You’re “The First” or “The Only”
An executive was recounting a recent work “failure” and asking for some advice. She had been brought in to a software product company to add her UX (user design) experience. …
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