Category: Shadow

Leadership and Shame

Shame is that ter­ri­ble emo­tion that iso­lates us in a par­tic­u­lar­ly nasty way. To expe­ri­ence shame is to be con­demned and, in part at least, it is we who are doing the con­demn­ing. In the end the expe­ri­ence just leaves us to hurt. Brené Brown, the writer, speak­er and researcher cur­rent­ly most asso­ci­at­ed with the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship and Shame

Little Behavior, Big Impact

I’m always amazed at how we make mean­ing out of oth­ers’ behav­iors — even, and maybe espe­cial­ly, the lit­tle stuff. I worked with a man­ag­er once who had a bad habit of not com­plet­ing email threads. You know, that last con­firm­ing “Thanks, I’ll see you then,” or “Okay, I’ve got the doc­u­ment. I’ll take a look… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lit­tle Behav­ior, Big Impact

What do I want?

What do I want? That’s almost as pow­er­ful a ques­tion as “Who am I?” For when we don’t express what we want in a true and heart-felt way — first and fore­most to our­selves — we lose a vital part of our joy in being exact­ly who we are. Iron­i­cal­ly, in a soci­ety that over-val­ues indi­vid­u­al­ism,… Con­tin­ue read­ing What do I want?