Category: Wounds

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweet­ed that he felt inspired by how I had con­nect­ed lead­er­ship to psy­cho­log­i­cal whole­ness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also plant­ed a seed. I’ve writ­ten before about what I think whole­ness is for lead­ers, but look­ing back to that 2011 post, I was dis­ap­point­ed… Con­tin­ue read­ing Mov­ing Toward Wholeness

On Unfairness

The very word, “unfair­ness,” if you slow down and let it sink in with you for a moment, is like a nee­dle touch­ing a wound. You may feel your stom­ach tight­en, the prod­uct of a pri­ma­ry social threat. As the last term in David Rock­’s famous SCARF mod­el, it rep­re­sents one of the most potent… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Unfair­ness

The Politics of Contempt

All you have to do these days is read just about any polit­i­cal post — say on Face­book if not some oth­er favorite web­site –and then go to the com­ments sec­tion: Per­son A: “Per­son B, what a liar! You should be forced to prove your accu­sa­tion. Peo­ple like you are ene­mies of the state” Per­son C:… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pol­i­tics of Contempt

Waking Up the World

It is a strange time, he said to me. No one can ques­tion that. Dai­ly life goes on, but against a frac­tured back­ground. Trust is naive, would­n’t you say? And our imag­ined, much laud­ed future for a long time’s been lit­tle more than a bro­ken puz­zle. Prob­lems have mount­ed, would­n’t you say? A pile of fire­wood just wait­ing for a match? Mean­while,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wak­ing Up the World