Category: Openness

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

On ‘Soul Sparks’

I am hon­ored to share my view of ‘soul sparks’ at the request of Jon Mertz of Thin Dif­fer­ence. This is a con­cept Jon has devel­oped as part of his won­der­ful new book, Acti­vate Lead­er­ship: Aspen Truths to Empow­er Mil­len­ni­al Lead­ers. As some­one whose life work is devot­ed to help­ing oth­ers in lead­er­ship roles, the… Con­tin­ue read­ing On ‘Soul Sparks’

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