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Resignation Kills Innovation – Are You Infected?

May 1, 2018 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
A recent Gallup Study on the State of the American Workplace stated that 70% of workers are not engaged at work.What is causing this and what can you do about it as a leader?Begin by looking for the mood and/or emotion of resignation in your work culture. Resignation shows up in individuals and orga ...
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Three Clues that Resignation, the Innovation Killer, has You

February 4, 2018 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
A recent Gallup Study on the State of the American Workplace stated that 70% of workers are not engaged at work. What is causing this and what can you do about it as a leader.Begin by looking for the mood and/or emotion of resignation in your work culture. Resignation shows up in individuals and org ...
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The Extraordinary, Ordinary Meeting

April 21, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
I was recently in an extraordinary, ordinary meeting. It was a Friday morning meeting where the previous day’s activities were discussed and the plan for the upcoming day was shared with the group. It was a meeting where people were engaged in a great dialogue of learning and listening. There was ...
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Where is your Leadership Dojo?

April 14, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
Where do you practice your leadership? Literally, where do you practice your leadership? Do you have a time and place set aside to practice things like effective conversations and moods of possibility? If you are working on making your body strong by lifting weights, I bet you could show me the gym ...
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Don Kern #LeadershipFlow in Action

September 22, 2014 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
In this ongoing series of conversations with gifted leaders I am exploring #LeadershipFlow in action. What is it? How does it help leaders navigate change and inspire others to reach for more?I recently spoke with Don Kern, who on December 1st, 2011, set the world record for the fastest time to c ...
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What is Your Leadership Presence?

August 22, 2014 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
Our bodies are always speaking louder than our mouths. What we communicate is most fundamentally shaped by our presence, whether or not it is coherent with our message.  -Bob Dunham How do you show up when you show up? What is your leadership presence? Go to Amazon.com and look up leadership books ...
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There’s More Than One Way to Tie a Knot– The Power of the Observer

August 7, 2014 By Croft Edwards - No Comments
     A quick little story about how our observation of things can serve us, and at the same time, limit us.     I built a free floating wooden raft for my daughters to play on up at the lake. It was a simple, fun vacation project, a chance for me to find some flow (That state of being, a high ...
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