by John Rogers | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog
I recently had the privilege to join the wonderful team over at The Leadership Podcast to discuss leadership and a slew of other topics. Here are some of the takeaways, along with the full recording below. The Leadership Podcast – We Study Leaders · TLP206:...
by John Rogers | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog
Marches. Protests. Riots. Each is a different, unique expression of anguish facing communities and their allies. Each is capable of evolving into another in an instant, with or without actual, representative intent, much less strategic planning. All of them are rooted...
by John Rogers | May 28, 2020 | Blog
The future has never been guaranteed. Even so, we’ve taken it for granted, and have avoided preparing in government, our businesses, and society in general. We tend to “work in,” not “work on,” managing too many crises and tasks to tackle the tough questions about the...
by John Rogers | May 27, 2020 | Blog
I got an out-of-the-blue email the other day from a couple of old friends and colleagues. They were looping me into a broader email thread of former Les Aspin staffers in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Les’ death. For those of you who don’t know, Aspin was...
by John Rogers | May 12, 2020 | Blog
We have a choice: we can either retrench into what was, realigning with old systems that have already revealed their cracks, or take the brave step the Renaissance Men and Women took to envision a new future—and then create that. The medieval Plague seems irrelevant...
by John Rogers | May 6, 2020 | Blog
In times of tremendous instability, the easiest tendency to fall victim to is retrenchment. “Let’s just go back to how things were before…” many find themselves musing. But the “good old days” crowd has to face some facts. For one, unless somebody creates Doc Brown’s...
