Category: Self-Knowledge

Deep Loneliness and the Raft of Self

Any­one who has tak­en the risk to live their per­son­al mean­ings is like­ly to come up against a dif­fi­cult fact: that to live in this cho­sen (and des­tined) way may also mean deep lone­li­ness. It is not always so, of course, but unless you are will­ing to ful­ly sur­ren­der to where your des­tiny might lead… Con­tin­ue read­ing Deep Lone­li­ness and the Raft of Self

Everything You Wanted to Know About Me But Were Afraid to Ask

Well, this may be way too much self-dis­­­clo­­sure, but here goes! The slides form a sequence. And while they do not seem to have any spe­cial rela­tion­ship to “leadership,“per se, I assure you the same dynam­ics show up else­where and in many sub­tle ways. This caus­es me alter­na­tive­ly to laugh right out loud at myself… Con­tin­ue read­ing Every­thing You Want­ed to Know About Me But Were Afraid to Ask

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