NEW Story Community Call
You might know, I’m a huge fan of community calls. I LOVE taking regular, designated time to invite people to converse around a theme or… Read More »NEW Story Community Call
Leadership Development
We humans never stop learning, but sometimes we get a little set in our ways of thinking. Leadership development helps people step out of their cultural and societal norms to take life by the horns. It is an essential piece in furthering openness within an organization or community. This category explores professional development and talks about inviting leaders to step up and live the open ethos.
Leadership should come with a smile
In the past, I’ve worked to detail what competencies and skills a leader inside the Mozilla community commonly has. For me, the majority of what… Read More »Leadership should come with a smile
Privacy/Security and Bullying
If all the sand in the Sahara is in the Sahara, and you have a mechanism to measure the exact shape of a single grain… Read More »Privacy/Security and Bullying
“They show up every day and do the work”
cross posted on Medium How many times have you heard someone talk about creative, productive, prolific writers, artists, thinkers of the past and say something… Read More »“They show up every day and do the work”
The Calm Catalyst
The last chapter of the Open Organization talks about how a leader in an open community has to be a catalyst: “An agent that provokes… Read More »The Calm Catalyst
Reach outside the silo
One of the things I know about open source and open communities is that as much as we want to break down silos, we have… Read More »Reach outside the silo
“We’re not ready to be open yet.”
Recently I drove to the Netherlands for a day to hang out with about half the people who work at Greenpeace International. The meet-up actually… Read More »“We’re not ready to be open yet.”
Leading Groups: Dealing with Too Cool for School & Other Personalities
As you probably know, I teach and facilitate groups of people in all sorts of learning experiences. Over the years I’ve noticed some repetition in… Read More »Leading Groups: Dealing with Too Cool for School & Other Personalities
Where the Talent Goes
Last week I read an article on OpenSource.com that had me thinking about personality traits that we in open source share. There are certain kinds… Read More »Where the Talent Goes
Open is an attitude
This past week I spent three days hanging out with the activists and thinkers who attended the Open Campaigns Camp. Participants included loads of folks… Read More »Open is an attitude