By B. Kim Barnes, Barnes & Conti CEO Life would be so much easier for leaders, managers, parents, friends, politicians, if only human beings behaved in predictable ways based on facts, logic, rational thought processes, or even fulfillment of practical …
The Rationale of Irrational Decisions: Considering Emotional Needs Read more »
by B. Kim Barnes, Barnes & Conti CEO In 1991, my house burned, along with 3000 others, in a huge firestorm that struck the hills of Oakland and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was unexpected – though, …
The Fire This Time: A Remembrance and a Reminder Read more »
By B. Kim Barnes, Barnes & Conti CEO In recent days, I have read several messages from CEOs of a variety of companies, large and small. The common theme is that we all need to examine our own behavior, decisions, …
Leading Through Pain: Reflection, Dialogue, Discomfort, Commitment, and Growth Read more »
Why do we have to have the “meeting after the meeting,” that intense discussion about what we should have said, but didn’t. In Kim Barnes’ soon-to-be-published book, Building Better Ideas: How Constructive Debate Inspires Courage, Collaboration and Breakthrough Solutions, she begins by …
Constructive Debate? Or the Meeting after the Meeting? Read more »
Have you ever wondered why certain innovations that are clearly superior to the technologies already in place take so long to catch on? Kim Barnes recently wrote an article that discusses the “social cost” of innovation as one of the …
New Article on Risk-Taking and the Social Cost of Innovation Read more »