Category: Shadow

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweet­ed that he felt inspired by how I had con­nect­ed lead­er­ship to psy­cho­log­i­cal whole­ness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also plant­ed a seed. I’ve writ­ten before about what I think whole­ness is for lead­ers, but look­ing back to that 2011 post, I was dis­ap­point­ed… Con­tin­ue read­ing Mov­ing Toward Wholeness

The Politics of Contempt

All you have to do these days is read just about any polit­i­cal post — say on Face­book if not some oth­er favorite web­site –and then go to the com­ments sec­tion: Per­son A: “Per­son B, what a liar! You should be forced to prove your accu­sa­tion. Peo­ple like you are ene­mies of the state” Per­son C:… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pol­i­tics of Contempt

The Sheer Grandeur of Our Mistakes

In case you haven’t been fol­low­ing the Wells Far­go scan­dal, I am reprint­ing the tran­scrip­tion of Sen­a­tor Eliz­a­beth War­ren ques­tion­ing John Stumpf, CEO and Chair­man of the Board of Wells Far­go dur­ing recent Sen­ate hear­ings. Over a peri­od of five years, 5,300 employ­ees were fired for open­ing accounts for cus­tomers with­out their knowl­edge, result­ing in… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Sheer Grandeur of Our Mistakes

The Wolves Revisited

It is a strange time to say the least.  Peo­ple are begin­ning to pub­lish more and more about Trump, rais­ing aware­ness of the dan­gers he rep­re­sents. The good news is he is being stopped, grad­u­al­ly, by peo­ple shar­ing the rapid­ly accu­mu­lat­ing evi­dence of his pat­terns: author­i­tar­i­an­ism, racism, misog­y­ny, xeno­pho­bia, crude­ness, nar­cis­sism, denials, divi­sive­ness, blam­ing, lying, vio­lence.… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Wolves Revisited