Category: Shadow

Anatomy of a Conflict

Despite all the good advice about resolv­ing con­flict, per­haps best exem­pli­fied by Stephen Cov­ey’s famous line, “Seek first to under­stand, then to be under­stood,” peo­ple most­ly don’t. When the emo­tion of con­flict takes over and the high­er func­tion­ing parts of the brain have been hijacked, what we want is to be under­stood, to be seen… Con­tin­ue read­ing Anato­my of a Conflict

Wounded Society

So much already has been writ­ten about the shock­ing events at Penn State, often with jus­ti­fi­ably deep out­rage. I, too, want to wail. There are, after all, so many kinds of vic­tims: • the chil­dren • the fam­i­lies • the stu­dents • the play­ers • the fans • the com­mu­ni­ty • the coun­try • all of us… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wound­ed Society

What is “Wholeness”?

This is a term that is often thrown around to describe a goal of indi­vid­ual growth and devel­op­ment, and so it shows up in well­ness, psy­cho­log­i­cal, and spir­i­tu­al lit­er­a­ture. But what does it mean, real­ly, and how does it apply in terms of readi­ness to lead oth­ers? One way to look at this is that… Con­tin­ue read­ing What is “Whole­ness”?

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The Power of Accessible Leadership

[Update for June 3, 2010: Based on feed­back, I have sig­nif­i­cant­ly revised this paper. The mate­r­i­al is large­ly the same, but it has been re-ordered to an extent, cut in some places, ampli­fied in oth­ers. It is now titled: “Fol­low­ing Self: How Lead­ers Can Stop Defend­ing and Start Liv­ing Their Own High­er Cause.” The link… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pow­er of Acces­si­ble Leadership