Category: Transformation

Conflict and Transcendence

Some con­flicts must be man­aged, mean­ing they con­tin­ue between peo­ple but they are not allowed to dom­i­nate the rela­tion­ship. We “agree to dis­agree,” we say. A more or less palat­able out­come at times that — in the­o­ry any­way — ends the con­test and inter­rupts dark­er feel­ings. I bet you’ve been there. So have I. How­ev­er, it… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­flict and Transcendence

On Personal Authority, Freedom and Connection

I start from the idea that a per­son­’s growth as a leader is relat­ed to under­stand­ing and tran­scend­ing old­er con­di­tioned emo­tions and con­di­tioned respons­es, espe­cial­ly those pat­terns of think­ing, feel­ing and action that induce us to play small­er or larg­er than we are. Take, for exam­ple, a leader who hap­pened to grow up in a house­hold… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Per­son­al Author­i­ty, Free­dom and Connection

The Only Life You Could Save

My client strug­gles to put a life togeth­er.  A vice-pres­i­­dent, 48 years old, he treats his exis­tence like a bal­ance sheet, or rather a series of poten­tial bal­ance sheets, because in the moment things are out of bal­ance. He has a good job with hopes of advance­ment, yet no part­ner, lives in a cold city… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Only Life You Could Save

The Shadow of Psychological Safety

It is prob­a­bly inevitable that when a con­cept achieves broad accep­tance that there will be debate over what it is and what it is not. Sur­vey­ing LinkedIn and oth­er social media sources, it’s appar­ent that the con­cept of psy­cho­log­i­cal safe­ty devel­oped by Har­vard Busi­ness School’s Amy Edmond­son has both achieved this lev­el of accep­tance and… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Shad­ow of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Safety