Category: Trust

Self-Control, Self-Confrontation and…Self-Conflict

It is no sur­prise that devot­ed, self-dis­­­ci­­plined, per­fec­tion­is­tic peo­ple — peo­ple with high ideals and addict­ed to their expec­ta­tions for self-improve­­ment — can be so cru­el to them­selves.  We bright achiev­ers, peo­ple who feel it is our oblig­a­tion to know our­selves and con­front our faults, may find our­selves in par­tic­u­lar­ly chal­leng­ing lead­er­ship roles only to… Con­tin­ue read­ing Self-Con­trol, Self-Con­fronta­tion and…Self-Conflict

The Horse

I stopped along a coun­try road to take a pho­to­graph. I had been down by the riv­er under the moun­tain, but the shad­ows had grown longer and now on my way home the moun­tain was immersed in late after­noon light. At first, two hors­es gal­loped to see me, but they soon wan­dered off, dis­tract­ed by… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Horse

Cowardice at Work

This is a tale of two high­er lev­el man­agers — the first all but ter­mi­nat­ed, shuf­fled into a sec­ondary job with­out an expla­na­tion except the unstat­ed, very real mes­sage, “your time is up — find some­thing else.” By com­par­i­son the sec­ond is offered a dig­ni­fied oppor­tu­ni­ty to leave the orga­ni­za­tion with sig­nif­i­cant feed­back and as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Cow­ardice at Work

Lessons in Snow

Late­ly, I’ve begun to think about the cul­ture of orga­ni­za­tions a lit­tle dif­fer­ent­ly than I used to. I once believed a medi­um or large size orga­ni­za­tion striv­ing to induce a major shift in the way things are done would have to do a great deal of ana­lyt­i­cal work, then set up and admin­is­ter rather large,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lessons in Snow