Category: Truth

On Misfits and Outcasts

Yes­ter­day as I was writ­ing my last post I for­got some­thing — from the con­ver­sa­tion I was hav­ing with a friend about her des­tiny. As we con­tin­ued to talk, what also came out was the sense that those who hon­or and fol­low their unique paths may also have to endure con­sid­er­able lone­li­ness and a sense… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Mis­fits and Outcasts

A Beautiful Example

First, I want to offer many thanks to Alek­sander Velkos­ki for stop­ping by my site and leav­ing a com­ment on my last post. In return, I vis­it­ed his own fine lead­­er­­ship-ori­en­t­ed site. I found excel­lent mate­r­i­al and I was par­tic­u­lar­ly impressed by a video of Peter Schiff that I, like Alek­sander, have decid­ed to embed.… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Beau­ti­ful Example

Three Kinds of Courage

Some years ago, I co-wrote a book called, Dri­ving Fear Out of the Work­place, regard­ing the dynam­ics of speak­ing up in orga­ni­za­tions. My co-author and I described typ­i­cal “undiscussable” issues – undis­cuss­ables being issues that peo­ple hes­i­tate to talk about with those who can do some­thing about the prob­lem – and how to approach them… Con­tin­ue read­ing Three Kinds of Courage

On Denial

As the year turns and I find myself reflect­ing about my work, what comes for­ward is the whole dynam­ic of denial by all of us in lead­er­ship roles and posi­tions. By denial I mean that we all too eas­i­ly push away uncom­fort­able or unac­cept­able truths. We push them away in a vari­ety of ways. I… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Denial