Change Archives - Diamond Leadership

5 Ways to Cultivate Your Personal Power

by Patrick Kitchen | Sep 11, 2018 | Articles, Change, Identity, Leadership, Learning and Development, powerless

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. –Lao Tzu As an executive coach, I’ve had plenty of experience helping clients deal with ineffective leadership in the form of an insecure boss. This isn’t just a...

Catching Yourself in The Act

by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Abuse of Power, Articles, Change, Learning and Development, Uncategorized

I recently blogged about the Recode/Decode interview between Kara Fisher and Frances Frei about changing the culture at Uber (it’s a great podcast episode, by the way). One thing that impressed me was Frei’s reluctance to embrace a zero-tolerance policy towards...

Underdogs and Alpha Dogs

by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Articles, Change, Identity, Leadership, powerless

In his well-known book, Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove, Silicon Valley pioneer and former CEO of Intel, recounts the story of the Pentium FDIV bug, an error in one of the earlier versions of the Intel Pentium processor. Intel was aware of the bug, but made the...

Shining a Light on Misuse of Power—Is It Enough?

by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Abuse of Power, Articles, Change, Leadership, Learning and Development

Earlier this year, following months of headline-generating incidents of alleged sexual harassment and gender discrimination, legal disputes, and public protests, Uber underwent a change in leadership. As new people, including former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder,...