There was a time in my life when I traveled a great deal for my consulting work. Not every week, but every other I was on a jet someplace to work with client companies. The stress of the work was matched by the stress of a challenging home life, with two little kids and a… Continue reading In Praise of Quiet Moments
Category: Trust
Three Voices: Truth, Kindness and Destiny
Self-Truth: This voice provides ongoing assessment of the realities we must face — both the external and the internal ones. When impaired or not present, this voice can lead to self-deception and distortion. If there is “too much” self-truth we may be immobilized by its critical judgments that we misinterpret as truth. If “too little”… Continue reading Three Voices: Truth, Kindness and Destiny
Growth Now
By growth I mean a positive change in the effectiveness of a person in their leadership capacities. This is actually harder to pull off than it sounds like it might be. We are built with strong, stabilizing internal mechanisms that show up as behavioral patterns etched into our personalities. To change that stuff means something… Continue reading Growth Now
We Are Enough
Not long ago a client struggling with his conditioning asked a telling question: “If I can’t be sure that the messages I’m sending myself are true, how on earth can I trust my own judgment?” The conditioning he battled had to do with his constant worries that he was making too many mistakes in his… Continue reading We Are Enough