Category: Healing

I hap­pened on a copy of “Good Com­mu­ni­ca­tion That Blocks Learn­ing” by mas­ter busi­ness the­o­rist, Chris Argyris. Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in Har­vard Busi­ness Revew in 1994, I want­ed to see if I still agreed with Argyris’s per­spec­tive about how orga­ni­za­tion­al lead­ers impede the empow­er­ment of their man­agers and employ­ees. While I found that my respect for… Con­tin­ue read­ing Places of Refuge

I think Dick Richards has done in a few short lines about as well as any­body could do to sum­ma­rize one of the impor­tant mean­ings of Barack Oba­ma’s elec­tion. In a post (now lost to hack­ers) he shared a con­nec­tion for him between the shoot­ing of John F. Kennedy and the elec­tion of Barack Oba­ma,… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Win­dow on Leadership

There is so much hub­bub around us about self-help and improve­ment that the key pre­con­di­tion of per­son­al change — self-accep­­tance — often gets com­plete­ly lost. I’m as guilty of this one as any­body, and maybe more than most. If you are inter­est­ed, as I am, in all things self-actu­al­ized, you too may expe­ri­ence the dilem­ma.… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Accep­tance