In my last few blog posts, we’ve been discussing the innovative practices of potato farmers which would be good for leaders to adopt.  The first three characteristic are to be humble curious, and agile, because humility leads to a higher level of interdependence of other people, curiosity helps to cultivate our adaptive capacity, and being […]

Innovative Leaders and Potato Farmers – Part 3 In my last few blog posts, we’ve been discussing the innovative practices of potato farmers which would be good for leaders to adopt.  The first two characteristic are to be humble and curious, because humility leads to a higher level of interdependence of other people, and curiosity […]

Innovative Leaders and Potato Farmers – Part 2 In my last blog post, we began a discussion of the innovative practices of potato farmers which would be good for leaders to adopt.  The first characteristic was to be humble because it leads to a higher level of interdependence of other people, an important part of […]

Innovative Leaders and Potato Farmers – Part 1 The Art and Practices of a Potato Farmer:  What Innovators Can Learn From Them Over the next few weeks, my blog will identify the characteristics of innovative potato farmers and provide recommendations as to how to apply them to all fields where innovation is a key to […]

What are you thinking? Let’s shorten that to:   are you thinking? Let’s shorten that to:    think!   As leaders, parents, and just busy people we often get caught in the practice of doing before we think about the consequences of our actions.  The old adage “think before you speak” (or act) is a hard […]