Seth Kahan

By Seth Kahan and Raj Chawla Top-down command-and-control leadership is not enough to get results in today’s workplace. There are three reasons: Increasing levels of economic, political, and social complexity Equal access to information at all levels in organizations More sophisticated and empowered customers and stakeholders Things move fast. Stakes are high. Agility, speed, and […]

Many of the organizations I work with are complex. This means they have one or more of the three attributes which make leadership particularly difficult: Geographic distribution – employees, customers, and partners are spread around the country, region, or the globe. Each physical location creates separation, challenging alignment. Multi-disciplinary – staff members have differing professional

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article first published in Executive Update, April 2002 Visionary leadership is transformative. It involves greatness, penetrating the ordinary, and reaching through time to bring out the best the world has

Meld is a curious word first used to announce displaying your hand in cards. In 1939 the idea of merging or blending appeared, particularly in making whisky. Both of these culminated, for me at least, when the mind-meld was born on the TV series, Star Trek, demonstrated by Mr. Spock, a member of the Vulcan

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article first published in Executive Update. It is widely recognized that community plays a central, strategic role for associations. Mark G. Doherty, CAE, Executive Director of the Institute for Operations

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Community is more than getting folks together. Literally translated the word means, “with unity.” When people settle in to work together with a common purpose and focus, you have a

by Simon Lelic Published in Knowledge Management December 2001/January 2002 Stories have been used for generations as a way to exchange and propagate complex ideas, but the association between storytelling and knowledge management has only recently attracted the widespread attention it warrants. Simon Lelic talks to representatives from SINTEF, NASA, the World Bank and IBM,

Interviewed by Seth Kahan, February 2003 Edited by Stephen Denning Seth: You’re a scientist and a manager, John. I understand you are paying a lot of attention to storytelling. Why is that? JSB: I’m taking storytelling so seriously that I’m now spending part of my time at the new institute for media literacy at USC.

Published in The Journal of Association Leadership, March 2004 and including commentary by Jeff De Cagna More and more organizations are realizing that creating community is something that executives must address strategically and thoughtfully. The association ecosystem is a series of complex relationships between different types of communities. Because of this, association leaders are beginning

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. INTRODUCTION & TEMPLATE Here is the framework I use to help my clients explore possible futures. I have successfully used it to do long-range strategic planning with organizations that include