Category: Trust

Through a Darkened Wood

If you like, lis­ten to me read this post. How many times in your own life or work have you felt that same anx­i­ety? We are often “mid­way upon the jour­ney” and “in the dark­ened wood.” I think of so many col­leagues and acquain­tances who have faced dif­fi­cul­ties — a divorce or sep­a­ra­tion, a can­cer,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Through a Dark­ened Wood

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Dropping Into the Void

Lis­ten to me read this post. This morn­ing I again read the many fine com­ments relat­ed to Chris Bai­ley’s great Novem­ber post, Is This What Lead­er­ship Looks Like? Chris uses the phrase, “depen­den­cy lead­er­ship mod­el” to describe some of our most neg­a­tive cul­tur­al con­di­tion­ing about lead­er­ship. In the depen­den­cy mod­el, the leader makes our deci­sions… Con­tin­ue read­ing Drop­ping Into the Void

The Devil’s Triangle

Not the area bound­ed by the tip of Flori­da, Puer­to Rico, and Bermu­da, so called because it is the mys­te­ri­ous grave­yard of ships and planes that have sim­ply van­ished. This one is much clos­er to home. Known as “triangulation” in rela­tion­ships, it hap­pens when two peo­ple talk about a third per­son when he or she… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Devil’s Triangle

The Ciphers and Riddles of the Words

Ellin’s love­ly com­ment on my post, “The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship,” helped me think about the ways we use lan­guage to either reveal or cloak our­selves in our con­tacts with oth­ers. This has noth­ing to do with being a native speak­er; in fact, being one may make some kinds of com­mu­ni­ca­tion more, not less dif­fi­cult. I… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ciphers and Rid­dles of the Words