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“SO OFTEN IN LIFE, THINGS THAT YOU REGARD AS AN IMPEDIMENT TURN OUT TO BE GREAT, GOOD FORTUNE.”

RUTH BADER GINSBURG
speaking + writing

It’s about learning to move through the uncertainty, fear, and stories with intention, resilience, and grace.

IF WE WANT TO BUILD THE FUTURE WE WANT TO LIVE, WE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO LET GO OF — AND UNLEARN — HOW WE’VE DONE THINGS IN THE PAST. It took me a while to make the shift from seeing challenges and struggles as teachers and gifts rather than inadequacy or punishment. Once I gained this perspective, I was able to put down the planning and perfectionism, and give myself permission to experiment, be in the mess, and not have all the answers. I have found that the best place for me to practice this unlearning is through writing.

Every time I write something, I make the space — sometimes over months — to process through and share learnings that have been hard-won. I  have been honored to move thought forward and step into the most important conversations we need to be having about the leaders and companies the world needs today.

Navigating Uncertainty – An Org Design Manifesto
We swim in uncertainty nearly every minute of our lives. As humans and companies, we have a responsibility to learn how to navigate uncertainty, which requires us to operate differently.

Transforming Agency and Brand Culture in the Future of Work
What is the future of work? And how do we — as leaders and organizations — navigate the uncertainty and complexity it brings? Mack speaks with Matt Harper, the CEO of The Marketing Practice about her role in a cultural and systems transformation bringing 6 companies together from across the world.

Work: The Reckoning and the Unravel [1/3]
Instead of asking: “How are we going to ‘return to work’?”  We need to be asking: “How do we create the conditions to do our best work, regardless of where we work — at home, in the office, or a hybrid of both?”

Work: The Conditions We’ve Created and the Future of Leadership [2/3]
The skills and practices leaders and teams need at work — to foster trust, innovation, creativity, collaboration, equity, and inclusivity — demand whole humans who value themselves so they can see, value, and be in service to others. Relational leaders who choose to practice self-inquiry, examine emotions and stories, manage energy, build resilience, pair self-compassion with empathy, and shift inequitable and inadequate systems.

Work: What is Being Asked of Us and the Work that’s Ours to Do [3/3]
What we have experienced over the last three years has been the wintering of our lifetimes. What has this wintering asked of us at work? What has it asked of us as humans? What have we been invited to change? What have we shed? What have we allowed to be born? What is the “essential and radical act” we are still resisting? What are we not hearing that is being said?

Innovate Into a New Idea of Work With the 4Ws Framework
The future of work has to be flexible to succeed. In the first of this three-parter for Salesforce, Karen Mangia and Mack Fogelson outline the 4Ws – the four ways individuals and organizations can make the move toward innovation, autonomy and choice to free up flexibility.

Create Inclusive Cultures with Relational Leadership
In the second part of this series from Salesforce, Karen Mangia and Mack Fogelson explore what it means to be an effective relational leader and create an inclusive culture.

The One Question Your Employees Most Want You to Ask
In the final part of this series from Salesforce, Karen Mangia and Mack Fogelson look at the future of work from the perspective of culture and choice – and the ultimate questions that lead to innovation.
 

How to Build High Performing, Self-Managed Teams
What is the future of work? And how do we — as leaders and organizations — navigate the uncertainty and complexity it brings? Mack speaks with Matt Harper, the CEO of The Marketing Practice about her role in a cultural and systems transformation bringing 6 companies together from across the world.

Economic Purpose – Study with the Economist Group
What does it mean for a business to operate with purpose? Is it a set of well-defined brand values; a corporate responsibility initiative, a clear vision for future growth? Or something more fundamental?

What All Great Teams Practice
“Ways of working” is a loaded phrase. There are two very significant — and different — parts to this: ways of doing and ways of being. Successful cultural and systems transformation requires both.