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Transformative Capacity: Why Organizations Need More Than Skills

As complexity rises and the pace of change accelerates, many organizations naturally anchor into what feels tangible and actionable—building new skills, developing competencies, and offering more content. These efforts are well-intentioned and often necessary, yet they rarely address the deeper challenge. Despite constant investment, the same patterns persist. What’s missing isn’t knowledge or capability. What’s missing is capacity. At Canvas,…

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Book Review of Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making by Gary Klein

Put Your Intuition on Ice During an interview by The Knowledge Project, Daniel Kahneman was asked to offer some advice on how to make better decisions. His answer summarized was: Slow Down, Delay your Intuitive response. Put your Intuition on Ice. Gary Klein’s book, Streetlight and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, offers some good answers as…

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The Thrive Index: Measuring Workplace Well-being

Thriving Employees Create Thriving Businesses Today's most progressive firms are committing to organizational well-being. They are breaking down social stigmas and actively measuring and monitoring various aspects of their company culture that support the holistic well-being of their employees. When leaders hold themselves accountable for creating cultures of well-being, the result is not just a successful organization, but thriving individuals,…

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The Year of the Employee

When uncertainty is the only certainty, it takes a toll on mental health Business as usual is anything but these days. The last two years brought employees around the globe, face to face with a shared need to innovate creative working solutions. For many of us, it also triggered an internal challenge to re-examine purpose, sustain intrinsic motivation and find…

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Culture Transformation through Values

Values = Behavior = Culture A Thriving Company Culture Drives Sustainable Success Despite overwhelming agreement among leaders that culture is important, many admit they don’t know how to make the most of this essential asset to their organization. Just like other performance targets, measuring culture allows leaders to manage it. The right leading indicators remove the guesswork in forging a…

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A New Era of Leadership Learning

Organizational leaders today are expected to drive success in an environment wrought with discontinuous change—lacking consistent sequence or predictable coherence. They must lead their business while simultaneously disrupting it. While both kinds of leadership capabilities are not new, our current global landscape demands more than just sustaining ambidextrous leadership roles. Rather, we are witnessing entire organizational culture transformations, that cultivate…

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Tomorrow’s Learning Communities

We already know that learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context: learning from, with, and because of others sharing, applying, reacting, and socializing our learnings unconsciously conforming to societal influences Yet, in our frenetic response to a remote, digital world and organizational needs to create scale and commoditize the learning experience, have we over-prioritized consistency…

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