Category: Openness

Can You Forget Yourself?

Can you for­get your­self, even for a moment? As a leader, some­one respon­si­ble for accom­plish­ing some larg­er pur­pose, do you know how?  So many aspects of lead­er­ship seem to depend on it — true lis­ten­ing, for exam­ple, so that you can gen­uine­ly empathize, hear­ing with open­ness rather than closed expec­ta­tions of what anoth­er will say. Or… Con­tin­ue read­ing Can You For­get Yourself?

Why Talk About Leadership?

After read­ing Steven Den­ning’s arti­cle, “The Sur­pris­ing Rea­sons Why Amer­i­ca Lost Its Abil­i­ty To Com­pete,” based on his reac­tions to a Har­vard study, my first thought was about the need to dis­cuss lead­er­ship. Please take a look at the arti­cle and study for your­self if you are able. The gist of Den­ning’s piece is that… Con­tin­ue read­ing Why Talk About Leadership?

Liberating Beauty

What is it that most peo­ple don’t “get” about lead­er­ship?  This is actu­al­ly not an easy ques­tion to answer. Not so much because dif­fer­ent peo­ple don’t get dif­fer­ent things, but because the essence is tru­ly hard to name. It’s not reducible, I don’t believe, to a sense of per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty or self-aware­­ness or humil­i­ty or… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lib­er­at­ing Beauty

On Leaving Things Out

Some years ago as my Fri­day end­ed, I walked into a VP’s office intend­ing to sim­ply wish him a good week­end. After a few pleas­antries, we fell into a more seri­ous con­ver­sa­tion about one of his direct reports, who I’ll call Ted. Ted had was per­haps the most tech­ni­cal­ly knowl­edge­able about cer­tain aspects of the… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Leav­ing Things Out