Category Archives: Contegrity Principles

One Size Fits One, Once

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Ken Anbender

The more masterful one is with one’s work, the less one is attached to and reliant upon one’s favorite ideas, methods, and even orientations. One’s work evolves and stays creative, being adaptive and appropriate to audience and situation and timing. The … Continue reading →

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What is Worth Leading?

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Ken Anbender

Can we really sensibly discuss leading as if where we pick to be headed isn’t of central importance? All directions and outcomes are not equal. People respond with a deeper “resonance” or sense of inspiration to the call of certain kinds of contributions … Continue reading →

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Right People, Right Place, Right Time with the Right Stuff

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Ken Anbender

It is a matter of common sense that work and productivity go better if the right people are in the right jobs. Too bad common sense stops short of saying how one might go about telling who is the right … Continue reading →

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Honor in Development

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Ken Anbender

Feel free to read the title in all its variations in meaning. There is honor in development. One can be in development regarding honor. One can have honor with respect to development. I recommend all three. Here is what I … Continue reading →

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You Can Lead A Horse To Development, but….

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Ken Anbender

I recently received an email from a friend that contained the quip, “You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can’t make them think.” It had a picture of a horse staring back at the reader, head held high but … Continue reading →

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All Issues are Time Issues

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Ken Anbender

Issues and difficulties can look like they are circumstantial, or personal, or competence- or action-based (not enough results, not enough money, not enough people or talent, etc.) Addressing them as such will get you in trouble — not the kind … Continue reading →

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Sufi Story — The Storied Illusion of a Path

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Ken Anbender

There was once a person who was so very willing to learn. They felt sure that this willingness to learn would be sufficient to making their way through life. In fact, their willingness to learn was so strong, that its very … Continue reading →

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Always and Only One Developmental Theme Up

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Ken Anbender

This post ought to be fairly short. Its length is out of proportion to its importance. If pressed I would say that this is the heart of the matter of development, and it is rarely well done. The title is more … Continue reading →

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Appropriate Response to Well-Timed Disruption — Thank You

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Ken Anbender

Disruption has a general reputation that it does not deserve. It is often held as an irritant, a faux pas, an attack, an undermine, oneupsmanship, and so on. It has this reputation because people do not do it well enough, … Continue reading →

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Three Sufi Stories Regarding Development

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Ken Anbender

I once made up a “Sufi story” (a teaching story with a twist) in a conversation a number of years ago with a brilliant man and teacher who had two PhDs and had studied time for 50 years. My intent was to show … Continue reading →

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