Rebel Wisdom

Ideas, insights and inspiration for Enlightened Rebels.

Elise Lacher Elise Lacher

How to Hire for Success in 2023

Join Enlightened Rebel Elise Lacher on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET for a FREE LIVE interactive Zoom training to learn some tools that will help you identify, hire, and develop the ideal team for your practice.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

The Coaching Habit

Effective leaders “boss” less, and coach more. The essence of coaching lies in helping others and unlocking their potential. By doing so, you share responsibility, don’t find yourself working as hard, and can have a greater impact.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

Enlightened Rebel Leadership

Enlightened Rebels recognize the need to question some of the long-accepted notions around leadership that are no longer relevant. They find better ways to lead and create inspired workplaces.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

Go Directly to Jail

“Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.” is a well-known instruction from the board game Monopoly. In this post, we link it to the first guiding principle on our Enlightened Rebel Roadmap... Practice Facilitative Leadership. Without it, you won't make much progress.

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Elise Lacher Elise Lacher

Create a Culture of Listening

Culture Renovation - How can we renovate the culture that exists in our practices to better nurture and empower our teams?

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

The New Leadership Paradigm

In this post we highlight the principles of a new paradigm of leadership to replace the old, dominant, hierarchical, command-and-control paradigm.

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Elise Lacher Elise Lacher

Network of Teams or Series of Silos?

The Enlightened Rebels Principle, Networked Structure, is all about working as a network characterized by interpersonal connection and effective communication.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

Leadership is Changing

In fact, according to Ludmila N. Praslova, PhD, we’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in leadership. Influence is the new power.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

In Search of “Good Work”

Bad Work doesn’t have to be accepted as the norm. We can create workplaces that honor the unique capabilities and creativity of every single person.

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Robert Trimble Robert Trimble

Collective Leadership

Circumstances and markets change rapidly as information flows faster. Rather than controlling through a top-down process and hierarchy, organizations can achieve better results by inspiring and empowering people to pursue their work with a high degree of freedom, responsibility, and accountability.

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Robert Trimble Robert Trimble

Networked Structure

Technology and connectivity has increased our ability to self-organize and be more collaborative. Working as a network of teams allows us to organize with many different kinds of connections while maintaining a high level of autonomy, replacing the hierarchical organization systems of the past.

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Robert Trimble Robert Trimble

Radical Transparency

Radical transparency and leveraging technology equip team members with abundant real-time information, increasing the speed and accuracy of decisions. Many organizations are assuming an “open by default” information sharing philosophy.

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Robert Trimble Robert Trimble

Intrinsic Motivation

Next-stage organizations allow members the freedom to be their passionate, motivated, authentic, and diverse selves in the pursuit of tasks that fit individual interests, talents, and strengths.

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Robert Trimble Robert Trimble

Purpose & Values

Organizations are changing from a primarily profit-driven focus to a longer-term visionary purpose model. The end result is healthy, sustainable business profitability.

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