Rebel Wisdom

Ideas, insights and inspiration for Enlightened Rebels.

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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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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

How to Take the Stress Out of Leadership

Leadership is about three outcomes. The focus is less on “The Leader” and a laundry list of individual leadership competencies and more on “The Leadership Process” and helping everyone pay attention to its essential elements.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

10 Principles of Emergent Organizations

Ten design principles are foundational to the future of organizations and the kinds of mindsets and behaviors that are needed to bring a legacy organization into the 21st century.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

The Future of Management is Teal

Many of us sense that the current way we run organizations has been stretched to its limits and we are increasingly disillusioned by organizational life. Frederic Laloux suggests that another, more soulful organizational model may be just around the corner.

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Jeff Thoren Jeff Thoren

The Dawn of System Leadership

Today’s problems and challenges require a unique type of leader – the system leader – a person who catalyzes collective leadership.

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