LEAP UPDATES
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. 
--Peter Drucker
Each month, we publish a Leap of Reason Update to share insights, tools, and learning opportunities for those who are working to raise their performance.
Empathy is Infectuous
Letâs be clear: The Coronavirus pandemic is deadly serious, and we all need to observe the CDCâs latest guidelines for keeping ourselves and others safe. Thereâs good reason that Lowellâs home state (WA) and Marioâs (OH) are on virtual lockdown, and we have great respect for Governors Jay Inslee (D) and Mike DeWine (R) for making these calls. These two elected officials are demonstrating precisely what courageous, adaptive leadership looks like!
âMen Are Coming to Kill Youâ
When we talk about organization building, we know some people think we sound like one of those podcasts designed to put you to sleep. But this past week Lowell got an epic lesson in how organization building can have life-and-death importance for millions of people.
Elegy Economics
Well before the tsunami election of 2016, we were reading, writing, and speaking about the seismic shifts rocking and rending American societyâfrom the technologies that are fundamentally altering the nature of work to the wealth and income inequality that is cleaving us into factions with completely different financial prospects. But neither of us are economists. And weâre sure as hell not Nobel Prize winners. Thatâs why we were eager to read Good Economics for Hard Times, the new book by…
The Link Between Humility and Effectiveness
In last month’s update, we mentioned that we were looking forward to reading Ford Foundation President Darren Walker’s new book, From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth. We both chose to listen to the audio version while we got some much-needed holiday exercise. The original “Gospel of Wealth,” penned by Andrew Carnegie in 1889, implored…
Nothing but Bionic Parts
Wouldnât you like a good way to take a deep look into your organizationâto discover how youâre doing, identify ways to get better, and create open introspection that helps people learn and improve? If so, please take a look at the Performance Practice, a resource from the Leap Ambassadors Community. According to Ingvild Bjornvold, who oversees the continuous-improvement process for the Performance Practice, âI doubt thereâs a nonprofit out there that…