Category: Transformation

The Path Called I Am

There is a point of learn­ing, a process of “turn­ing the cor­ner” that is evi­dent after receiv­ing neg­a­tive feed­back. For some, defen­sive reac­tions wall out learn­ing, but for oth­ers who are will­ing to step for­ward — some­thing not nec­es­sar­i­ly very easy — con­nec­tion, learn­ing and growth open a way to renew­al. How does this pos­i­tive… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Path Called I Am

Inner Wildness

There may be all too lit­tle true wilder­ness left on our shrink­ing globe, but there is still plen­ty of wilder­ness with­in.  The path toward lead­ing suc­cess­ful­ly is all too often mea­sured in exter­nal out­comes, but the truth we know is that it is also mea­sured in “incomes,” the degree to which a human being is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Inner Wild­ness

Four Kinds of Power

While work­ing with a client, I found myself try­ing to explain how a leader claims pow­er. Part of the mod­el pic­tured below came to mind.  Pow­er is some­thing that we all have some con­cern with. With­out it, we can­not get things done. With­out it, we are lim­it­ed in how we move through our respon­si­bil­i­ties. At one… Con­tin­ue read­ing Four Kinds of Power

Shells

Recent­ly with­in the Lead­er­ship Think Tank dis­cus­sion group of LinkedIn, a rather long thread has evolved and tak­en on a life of its own regard­ing whether it is pos­si­ble for peo­ple to change. It seems many of us have some­thing to say about it! I have writ­ten else­where about this sub­ject, and also added my… Con­tin­ue read­ing Shells