I’m paraphrasing Heraclitus here, of course. I think about change a lot because much of the organizational or interpersonal conflict I’m invited to help sort out involves, to some degree, a person’s or an organization’s wish that someone else change. While I think it’s true that there are folks who are less comfortable with change [...]

I’m reading a gripping book right now, Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. Gonzales profiles men and women who survived epic-proportion catastrophes in nature—adrift at sea, caught in an avalanche, lost in the Bolivian jungle—in order to understand why some of us survive such extraordinary circumstances and most of us don’t. And he believes the principles [...]